[R-pkg-devel] Weird error on CRAN linux check
On 05/07/2018 2:06 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 05/07/2018 9:11 AM, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
Agreed. I fixed the roxygen2 and it works fine. But yet, the original
v4.0.1 on CRAN has a namespace file which contains
S3method(bold,huxtable)
export(bold)
export(bold.huxtable)
and
S3method("align<-",huxtable)
export("align<-")
export("align<-.huxtable")
yet still fails on linux-patched and linux-release, with "no applicable
method" errors for align<- and bold. Unfortunately, I don't know how to
reproduce the error on any other platform....
I just got R installed on an Ubuntu VM, and ran "R CMD check huxtable_4.0.1.tar.gz" both with and without "--as-cran", without seeing the error you quoted. (I did see other problems, related to not having things like pandoc installed; nothing that looked like a problem with the package rather than a problem with my R installation.) That looks like a bug, but without having a system that can reproduce it, it's hard to narrow down where: - In R's checks? Seems unlikely, given it is so system specific. - In CRAN's scripts? Really unlikely, since all the tests are in R. - In huxtable or some package used by huxtable? Seems possible: maybe memory got corrupted. Perhaps running under some memory checker would be more informative.
I just tried valgrind on Ubuntu and it didn't see anything. Duncan Murdoch
Perhaps the CRAN team could be helpful here.
Anyway, meanwhile, my problem is fixed and I have learned something about function environments.
Given that the error is unrelated to the solution, it really looks like memory corruption somewhere or other. Duncan Murdoch