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[R-pkg-devel] packages installed on winbuilder

7 messages · Stachelek, Joseph, Charles Determan, Martin Maechler +3 more

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I am trying to compile a package through winbuilder. The winbuilder website says that every CRAN package is installed. Does this mean that absolutely every package is installed or just packages that have binary distributions? I am getting a "package required but not available" message.

--Joseph


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Which package are you receiving this error?  Winbuilder should have all
current CRAN and Bioconductor packages available for your package
dependencies.

Charles

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Stachelek, Joseph <jstachel at sfwmd.gov>
wrote:

  
  
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> I am trying to compile a package through winbuilder. The winbuilder website says that every CRAN package is installed. Does this mean that absolutely every package is installed or just packages that have binary distributions? I am getting a "package required but not available" message.

The Winbuilder service is basically provided by Uwe Ligges volunteering
(and infrastructure of the department of statistics of
 Universit?t Dortmund, AFAIK, with a some hardware costs covered
 by the R Foundation).

I'm pretty sure Uwe's intent is to have  every  CRAN package
installed .. which is installable on Windows.
Some packages do explicitly require a non-Windows OS 
(similarly as a few other packages explicitly only work on Windows)
and hence would be excluded. 

For other packages, considerable manual work might be
required such that the package is easily installed/installable
on Winbuilder.  For instance, for my 'Rmpfr' package, a few
years ago, Uwe had to make sure that the underlying MPFR C
library was available on the winbuilder as well.

So lets thank Uwe for all he has volunteered doing about this,
and in your place, I'd ask him politely also for your specific
situation.

Martin

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I am receiving this error about RcppOctave. I see that it does not have a binary on CRAN because of compiled code issues. My package does not have compiled code itself and it passes CRAN check. I set example code chunks to not run but this did not solve the issue.

From: Charles Determan [mailto:cdetermanjr at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 9:53 AM
To: Stachelek, Joseph
Cc: r-package-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] packages installed on winbuilder

Which package are you receiving this error?  Winbuilder should have all current CRAN and Bioconductor packages available for your package dependencies.
Charles
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Stachelek, Joseph <jstachel at sfwmd.gov<mailto:jstachel at sfwmd.gov>> wrote:
I am trying to compile a package through winbuilder. The winbuilder website says that every CRAN package is installed. Does this mean that absolutely every package is installed or just packages that have binary distributions? I am getting a "package required but not available" message.

--Joseph


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Can you please include the exact error message that you are seeing?
That will help diagnose the problem.

Hadley
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Stachelek, Joseph <jstachel at sfwmd.gov> wrote:

  
    
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On 22 May 2015 at 14:35, Stachelek, Joseph wrote:
| I am receiving this error about RcppOctave. I see that it does not have a binary on CRAN because of compiled code issues. My package does not have compiled code itself and it passes CRAN check. I set example code chunks to not run but this did not solve the issue.

That is a pretty involved package which I know a little. I would recommend
that make that a Suggests: RcppOctave and test for presence of RcppOctave in
examples or tests.   To my reading of Writing R Extensions, that is exactly
what is recommended in this situation where you "can but not must" use
another package.

Dirk
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On 22.05.2015 16:24, Martin Maechler wrote:
Currently all hardware costs covered by Dortmund university, actually.
Please see

http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RcppOctave.html


Windows error logs are are those from winbuilder. If a package cannot be 
installed, it won't be there of course.

Hence please follow the advise to make it a suggested package "only".

Best,
Uwe Ligges