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[R-pkg-devel] failing CRAN checks due to problems with dependencies

4 messages · Marcin Jurek, Ivan Krylov, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Marcin Jurek
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Dear community,

I've been trying to submit an update to my GPvecchia package recently. This
morning I was notified that my package didn't pass incoming checks. When I
looked at the log this was the problem:

* checking package dependencies ... ERROR
Packages required but not available: 'sparseinv', 'GpGp'* checking
package dependencies ... ERROR

Packages required but not available: 'sparseinv', 'GpGp'

Like my package, these have been on CRAN for a while now and still seem to
be. However they both report an error in their respective CRAN checks, but
it's a weird one.

This is taken from GpGp checks but it's similar for sparseinv:

Result: ERROR  Packages required but not available: 'Rcpp', 'FNN',
'RcppArmadillo' Packages suggested but not available for checking:
'fields', 'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'maptools' See section ?The DESCRIPTION
file? in the ?Writing R Extensions?

I'm not sure how to proceed. I know the maintainer of the GpGp package but
I'm not sure what to alert him to if Rcpp does not work.

I really appreciate your help.

Marcin
1 day later
Ivan Krylov
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? Wed, 7 Feb 2024 08:40:44 -0600
Marcin Jurek <marcinjurek1988 at gmail.com> ?????:
One of the machines running the incoming checks was having problems. If
you followed the failing dependency chain by looking at the CRAN check
results of the packages described as "not available", you could
eventually find a package needing compilation (Rcpp or stringi or
something else), look at the installation log and see Make trying to
run commands that are completely wrong.

It looked like the path to the compiler was empty:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240208191430/https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang/Rcpp-00install.html

I think that the problems are solved now, so it should be safe to
increment the version and submit it again.
Marcin Jurek
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Ok, this makes sense! I saw that Rcpp was failing the checks too but I
wasn't sure if I should resubmit or wait. Thanks!
On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 1:17?PM Ivan Krylov <ikrylov at disroot.org> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On 8 February 2024 at 13:28, Marcin Jurek wrote:

        
| Ok, this makes sense! I saw that Rcpp was failing the checks too but I
| wasn't sure if I should resubmit or wait. Thanks!

For completeness, it was not caused by Rcpp but rather by a mix on new clang
and gcc versions which somehow got into each other's way on that machine; and
this has by now been fixed.

Dirk