I am unable to reproduce a recent R CMD check failure on CRAN
concerning a package of mine: grattan.
This package Suggests: taxstats which is a large package hosted by an
Additional repository: https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/
When I run this check locally, on travis, and on appveyor with
_R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_ = true I get the expected NOTE:
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: ?Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parsonage at gmail.com>?
Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories:
taxstats
Availability using Additional_repositories specification:
taxstats yes https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/
However, on CRAN (including win-builder) I get the rather curious NOTE:
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parsonage at gmail.com>'
Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories:
taxstats
Availability using Additional_repositories specification:
taxstats no ?
? ? https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/
Additional repositories with no packages:
https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/
followed by errors resulting from failures to install 'taxstats' when
code such as the following is run to re-build vignettes:
if (requireNamespace("taxstats", quietly = TRUE)){
library(taxstats)
} else {
templib <- tempfile()
hutils::provide.dir(templib)
install.packages("taxstats",
lib = templib,
repos = "https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/",
type = "source")
library("taxstats", lib.loc = templib)
}
Since the failures only occur on Windows machines, and have only
appeared recently, I have considered modifying the DESCRIPTION file to
'trick' win-builder into reinstalling taxstats, as I suspect there may
be caching issues. However, given that the 'taxstats' package takes a
fairly long time to install, I don't want to do this nor submit to
CRAN in case I am missing something else that's causing the check to
fail.