[R-pkg-devel] Package fails to build on CRAN Windows server: rtracklayer version too new
Hi Henrik, Thanks for your explanation, that does indeed make sense. I will try to track down the bioc package dependency that's setting the explicit rtracklayer version dependency and go from there... The fact that Bioconductor allows packages to be released without successfully building on Windows does create some interesting downstream issues for CRAN packages with bioc dependencies, and raises a larger question for me about whether I should really host this package on CRAN or if I should try to move it to Bioconductor. Anyway, thanks again for your help (also I'm a big fan of your future package) Cheers, Tim On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 9:47 PM Henrik Bengtsson
<henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:
Not that it solves your problem per se, but here's what I think CRAN only has rtracklayer 1.48.0 installed on WIndows, i.e. why you get error "namespace 'rtracklayer' 1.48.0 is being loaded, but >= 1.51.5 is required.": * The current Bioconductor "release" is version 3.12 * As you say, Bioconductor 3.12 provides rtracklayer 1.50.0 (https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.12/bioc/html/rtracklayer.html) * However, if you look at that page, for Windows it only provides rtracklayer 1.49.5 (this is because rtracklayer never successfully checked on Bioconductor 3.12) * Since the minor version component of rtracklayer 1.49.5 is _odd_, it means it's from a Bioconductor 'devel' branch, i.e. when Bioconductor 3.12 was in devel. * Thus, the most recent Bioconductor "release" where rtracklayer was successfully distributed on Windows is Bioconductor 3.11. * Bioconductor 3.11 provides rtracklayer 1.48.0 (https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.11/bioc/html/rtracklayer.html) Clear as mud? I suspect you're using Suggest: rtracklayer (https://github.com/timoast/signac/blob/develop/DESCRIPTION) in your new version. If so, that's good. I also don't think you're doing anything wrong here. Instead, I think it's one of your other Bioconductor dependencies under 'Imports:', or possibly under 'Suggests:', that depend on 'rtracklayer'. The fact that error says "namespace 'rtracklayer' 1.48.0 is being loaded, but >= 1.51.5 is required.", means that one of those Bioconductor dependencies, or their dependencies, has an explicit 'rtracklayer (>= 1.51.5)' under either Depends: or Imports:. My recommendation is that you start identifying that Bioconductor package, and in what way your 'Signac' depends on that package. That will help you decide on what to do next. /Henrik PS. This can happen because Bioconductor allows a package to propagate to a new "release" branch even if it fails on one of the operating systems. On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 1:59 PM Tim Stuart <tstuart at nygenome.org> wrote:
Hi all, I am trying to submit an update to my package (https://cran.r-project.org/package=Signac) to CRAN, but it is currently failing to install on the Windows server. I see the following installation error: "namespace 'rtracklayer' 1.48.0 is being loaded, but >= 1.51.5 is required." The current release version for rtracklayer is 1.50.0 (https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/rtracklayer.html). My package does not set a version requirement for rtracklayer, so this installation error must be caused by having a pre-release version of one of my bioconductor dependencies installed on the windows server. Does anyone know how I might be able to solve this issue? I have tried contacting the CRAN team a few times by reply-all to the CRAN emails, but have not had any response from them. This seems like an issue that could only be solved by fixing the installation of packages on the CRAN Windows server. Incoming test results: https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/Signac_1.1.2_20210415_225235/ Thanks, Tim -- This message is for the recipient?s use only, and may contain confidential, privileged or protected information. Any unauthorized use or dissemination of this communication is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and destroy all copies of this message. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses, as we accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.
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