Re: [R-pkg-devel] Diagnosing error on CRAN's old R, old Windows

2015-10-08 Thread Mark van der Loo
I had the same problem recently. It was apparently a windows-only oldrel-only problem (and a specific oldrel, I can't remember which one). I opted to adjust the DESCRIPTION to depend on a higher R version. Main reason was that I don't have access to the right type of Windows version to test it loca

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Diagnosing error on CRAN's old R, old Windows

2015-10-08 Thread Ben Bond-Lamberty
>Unfortunately the error diagnostics are not particularly helpful, only showing >that four tests failed; the only common thread I see, maybe, is that all four >tests--and no others--use R's file.size() function. Brief follow-up for completeness: it turns out that `file.size()` doesn't exist on W

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Diagnosing error on CRAN's old R, old Windows

2015-10-08 Thread Ben Bond-Lamberty
My intent wasn't particularly to blame CRAN, just puzzlement that a normally-chatty test script is silently dying in this one case. Anyway, thanks for the advice. Ben On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 08/10/2015 8:06 AM, Ben Bond-Lamberty wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> My r

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Diagnosing error on CRAN's old R, old Windows

2015-10-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 08/10/2015 8:06 AM, Ben Bond-Lamberty wrote: > Dear list, > > My recent package was accepted and posted by CRAN, but the check > results (https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_luzlogr.html) > show an error for flavor 'r-oldrel-windows-ix86+x86_64'. Everything > else passes fine. U

[R-pkg-devel] Diagnosing error on CRAN's old R, old Windows

2015-10-08 Thread Ben Bond-Lamberty
Dear list, My recent package was accepted and posted by CRAN, but the check results (https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_luzlogr.html) show an error for flavor 'r-oldrel-windows-ix86+x86_64'. Everything else passes fine. Unfortunately the error diagnostics are not particularly help