From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian.org>
To: "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
Cc: "Chris Evans" <chrishold at psyctc.org>, "r-package-devel" <r-package-devel at r-project.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 16 March, 2021 12:45:44
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Two (newbie/luser) questions about adding CI to github hosted package
On 16 March 2021 at 06:48, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| On 16/03/2021 5:58 a.m., Chris Evans wrote:
| You have 5 workflows, and their current content doesn't appear to match
| the results on your actions page. Pick one, run it, and I'll see if I
| can spot the reason for a failure.
More granularly, one of these five workflow spawns nine builds of which the
ones with older R version (3.3, 3.4, 3.5) fail as seen eg for run #3:
https://github.com/cpsyctc/CECPfuns/actions/runs/657501549
Maybe you want to comment out runs for R versions that old, or debug why they
fail. The error shown in R 3.5 (a version soon three years out of date you
are not obliged to care for: CRAN uses only current, previous and next
release) is not something I have seen before:
?? R CMD build ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
* checking for file ?.../DESCRIPTION? ... OK
* preparing ?CECPfuns?:
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
Error in parse_Rd("/tmp/RtmpydYbB0/Rbuild4d3e1cce5e37/CECPfuns/man/getCSC.Rd",
:
Value of SET_STRING_ELT() must be a 'CHARSXP' not a 'NULL'
Execution halted
Error: Error in proc$get_built_file() : Build process failed
Calls: <Anonymous> ... build_package -> with_envvar -> force -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
Here proce$get_built_file points to `pkgbuild` which is part of a non-CRAN
toolchain. So this may not be caused by your package -- I can't tell. My
preference is to keep it simpler: I usually get by with one workflow and
generally at most two builds.
Dirk
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