[R-pkg-devel] Testing package on R-devel in a docker container

Thanks.

I thought this was the issue, and even manually deleted /usr/bin/R and
/usr/bin/Rscript, but the problem persisted.  But now I am thinking that
/usr/bin/R may not be the relevant executables, the development version may
pull up something directly from /usr/lib/R/bin instead (the devel is
installed in /usr/local/lib/R ).

Will try!

Ott

On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 9:57?PM Tim Taylor <
tim.taylor at hiddenelephants.co.uk>
wrote:

You may be hitting the following issue in tinytest:
https://github.com/markvanderloo/tinytest/issues/135

There is a linked PR you could try that hopefully fixes the problem:
https://github.com/markvanderloo/tinytest/pull/134

Tim

On 11 Aug 2025, at 05:39, Ott Toomet <otoomet at gmail.com> wrote:

?Hey everyone who is more familiar with R-devel and docker.

I am trying to test the new version of my package (maxLik) on R-devel,
using the docker container.  I am using rocker/r-devel as the base.  Note
that R-devel is called "RD" in the image.  I am copying in my package
sources and a few scripts, and run "RD CMD build" and "RD CMD check".
However, the latter fails with complaints about missing packages that are
installed and accessible when I run RD from command line.

Here are a few results:

* After a successful build inside the container, I run check:
root at f4024e015396:/# RD CMD check --as-cran maxLik_1.6-3.tar.gz
* using log directory ?//maxLik.Rcheck?
* using R Under development (unstable) (2025-08-11 r88561)
* using platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
* R was compiled by
   gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0
   GNU Fortran (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0
* running under: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid
* using session charset: UTF-8
* using option ?--as-cran?
* checking for file ?maxLik/DESCRIPTION? ... OK
* this is package ?maxLik? version ?1.6-3?
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... [6s/35s] OK
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking if there is a namespace ... OK
* checking for executable files ... OK
* checking for hidden files and directories ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
* checking serialization versions ... OK
* checking whether package ?maxLik? can be installed ... ERROR
Installation failed.
See ?//maxLik.Rcheck/00install.out? for details.
* DONE

Status: 1 ERROR
See
 ?//maxLik.Rcheck/00check.log?
for details.

* Take a look at the log:

root at f4024e015396:/# cat maxLik.Rcheck/00install.out
* installing *source* package ?maxLik? ...
** this is package ?maxLik? version ?1.6-3?
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck =

vI[[i]])

:
 there is no package called ?lattice?
Calls: <Anonymous> ... loadNamespace -> withRestarts -> withOneRestart ->
doWithOneRestart
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ?maxLik?
* removing ?/maxLik.Rcheck/maxLik?

Apparently 'lattice' is missing???

* But it is there and I can load it with no errors:

root at f4024e015396:/# RDscript -e "packageVersion('lattice')"
[1] ?0.22.7?
root at f4024e015396:/# RDscript -e "library(lattice)"

Formerly I got similar missing package messages for other packages, I

have

also tried to manually overwrote the R_LIB_USR environment variable (that
resulted in another error a bit further down in the line), and to install
my own package into different locations.  So far everything seems to lead
to the same problem.

Note that it works if I run it inside the container using the stable R

("R"

instead of "RD").  Currently it is based on r88561 (2025-08-11) version

of

R-devel as you can see above.

For reference, here is the Dockerfile:

# -*- dockerfile-mode -*-
FROM rocker/r-devel
RUN apt-get install -y texlive-science
ENV INSIDE_DOCKER=true
COPY packages.R .  # install script for necessary packages
RUN RDscript packages.R  # install dependencies/suggestions etc
COPY pkg ./pkg  # copy the maxlik package source
COPY build-check .  # building/checking script
CMD ["bash"]


Any ideas?

Ott

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