Re: [Rd] Rebuilding and re-checking of downstream dependencies on CRAN Mac build machines

2020-03-26 Thread Winston Chang
Simon, The link I provided to the httpuv issue has detailed information about the error: https://github.com/rstudio/httpuv/issues/260 The error occurs when I run the following (although note, depending on which mirror you use, the recent CRAN server issues may result in problems downloading the

Re: [Rd] Rebuilding and re-checking of downstream dependencies on CRAN Mac build machines

2020-03-26 Thread Hadley Wickham
If I do install.packages("dplyr", type = "source"), I see: Installing package into ‘/Users/hadley/R’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/dplyr_0.8.5.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1378766 bytes (1.3 MB) ==

Re: [Rd] Rebuilding and re-checking of downstream dependencies on CRAN Mac build machines

2020-03-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
Winston, the Mac CRAN build builds a package only if either is true: 1) the package has not passed checks 2) there is a new version of the package since last successful build+check The old build machine doesn't have the capacity to do full re-builds (it would take over 24h - currently the nightl

[Rd] Rebuilding and re-checking of downstream dependencies on CRAN Mac build machines

2020-03-26 Thread Winston Chang
I have two questions about the CRAN machines that build binary packages for Mac. When a new version of a package is released, (A) Do the downstream dependencies get re-checked? (B) Do the downstream dependencies get re-built? I have heard (but do not know for sure) that the answer to (A) is no