[R-pkg-devel] Package check help: Package required but not available
On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 16:05 +0000, David Stanley wrote:
Hi Everyone, I?m new to this list but hopefully you can help me. I?m working on updating my apaTables package (most recent code: https ://github.com/dstanley4/apaTables) However, I?m encountering problems passing the CRAN check because of a package I use (MBESS). MBESS is available on all platforms except r-patched-solaris-x86 (see https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/chec k_results_apaTables.html) To work around this I did three things that have not worked. 1) I modified the DESCRIPTION file. I moved MBESS from Imports to Suggests 2) I manipulated a flag (show.confidence.interval) in my file apaDvalueTable.R show that it is always FALSE if the following is FALSE: requireNamespace("MBESS", quietly = TRUE) . That is, if the package is not there do no calculate the confidence intervals that require it. But I still fail the check. Is this perhaps because I didn?t wrap the MBESS command on line 97 with an ?if? using requireNamespace? This command will never be executed without the package though because of the flag. 3) I also wrapped a command that uses MBESS in apaRegressionTable.R (line 276) that uses MBESS. Any help much appreciated in resolving this "Package required but not available? problem.
David, I think you are misinterpreting the message you are getting. The fact that the MBESS package is not available on Solaris is not your fault and is not something you should have to work around. In fact, the problem is not even with the MBESS package, but with the rpf package through the chain of dependencies: ApaTables -> MBESS -> OpenMx -> rpf Note that the message about the lack of availability of MBESS is for the *current* version of Apatables on CRAN, (1.5.1), not the new version that your are uploading (2.0.1). The issues that require fixing are for the incoming checks, that take place on Windows, i.e. the NOTEs that you say are easily fixed.
(Detailed CRAN message below. Fixing the Notes issues are easy.)
Martyn
Cheers, David David Stanley, PhD | Associate Professor Department of Psychology | University of Guelph 4002 MacKinnon | 50 Stone Rd E | Guelph, ON | N1G 2W1 dstanley at uoguelph.ca<mailto:dstanley at uoguelph.ca> | 519-824-4120 Ext. 58590 uoguelph.ca/psychology/users/david-stanley<http://uoguelph.ca/psychol ogy/users/david-stanley> @dstanley4 Dear maintainer, package apaTables_2.0.1.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, please see the pre-test at: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/180301_161113_apa Tables_201/00check.log> Status: 2 NOTEs Current CRAN status: ERROR: 1, OK: 11 See: <https://CRAN.R-project.org/web/checks/check_results_apaTables.h tml> Please fix all problems and resubmit a fixed version via the webform. If you are not sure how to fix the problems shown, please ask for help on the R-package-devel mailing list: <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel> If you are fairly certain the rejection is a false positive, please reply-all to this message and explain. More details are given in the directory: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/180301_161113_apa Tables_201> The files will be removed after roughly 7 days. Best regards, CRAN teams' auto-check service [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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