[R-pkg-devel] OFFICIAL: R-devel check error: package or NAMESPACE load failed, there is no package called broom

OFFICIAL

Hi

Any help with the following update to my package PHEindicatormethods would be appreciated.

I have made a very minor change to the package to fix dependencies on the tidyr:nest() function as tidyr v 1.0.0 is due to be released with breaking changes on 9th September.
The version I am trying to upload to CRAN is 1.1.5 available here: https://github.com/PublicHealthEngland/PHEindicatormethods


When I run devtools::check_win_devel locally (Windows 10 laptop, R 3.6.1, rStudio 1.2.1335) it passes with no NOTES, ERRORS or WARNINGS (locally it also passes devtools::check_win on release and oldrelease and devtools::check_rhub)

When I submit to CRAN I have been notified that package PHEindicatormethods_1.1.5.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, signposting failing pre-tests on Windows:

* using R Under development (unstable) (2019-09-02 r77130)

* using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit)

* using session charset: ISO8859-1



This is the log file available for 7 days: https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/PHEindicatormethods_1.1.5_20190905_224346/Windows/00check.log

Below are two sections from the log that show the errors:

library('PHEindicatormethods')

Error: package or namespace load failed for 'PHEindicatormethods' in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):

 there is no package called 'broom'

Execution halted

** running examples for arch 'x64' ... ERROR

Running examples in 'PHEindicatormethods-Ex.R' failed

The error occurred in:

R Under development (unstable) (2019-09-02 r77130) -- "Unsuffered Consequences"

Copyright (C) 2019 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing

Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)


Error: processing vignette 'WorkedExamples_phe_sii.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:

package or namespace load failed for 'PHEindicatormethods' in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):

 there is no package called 'broom'

--- failed re-building 'WorkedExamples_phe_sii.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:

  'WorkedExamples_phe_sii.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.

Execution halted

I have checked the broom package and its upstream dependency on generics - I notice the tidy() function was moved from broom to generics a while back but this was before I submitted the current version (1.1.3) of my package to CRAN so not sure this can be the problem, although one of my functions does reference broom::tidy().  The evidence seems to point to changes in R-devel causing something in my package to break but without being able to reproduce the errors seen by CRAN I'm finding it difficult to pinpoint the problem.

Thanks
Georgie


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