Thank you Uwe & Neal, Following your suggestion, I tried inserting a binary version of the package into the repository. I first tried inserting the package into R 3.4; however, the note persists on winbuilder for R-release:
* using log directory 'd:/RCompile/CRANguest/R-release/grattan.Rcheck' * using R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30) * using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit) * using session charset: ISO8859-1 * checking for file 'grattan/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * checking extension type ... Package * this is package 'grattan' version '1.5.3.2' * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE Maintainer: 'Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>' Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION: Grattan (18:24) indices (17:77) repos (19:34) taxstats (19:23) Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories: taxstats Availability using Additional_repositories specification: taxstats no ? ? ? https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ Additional repositories with no packages: https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ (ephemeral link: https://win-builder.r-project.org/4SMyJyP2fZcC/00check.log ) whereas when I run R CMD check --as-cran on a local machine, as well as on appveyor, I get the expected NOTE. ─ using log directory 'C:/Users/hughp/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp4IHBGp/file3b0053a64c53/grattan.Rcheck' ─ using R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30) ─ using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit) ─ using session charset: ISO8859-1 ─ using option '--as-cran' ✔ checking for file 'grattan/DESCRIPTION' ─ checking extension type ... Package ─ this is package 'grattan' version '1.5.3.2' N checking CRAN incoming feasibility Maintainer: 'Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>' Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories: taxstats Availability using Additional_repositories specification: taxstats yes https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ The newly inserted binary package appears to install fine on Appveyor's instance: Rscript -e "is.null(install.packages('taxstats', repos = 'https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat'))" Installing package into 'c:/RLibrary' (as 'lib' is unspecified) trying URL 'https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/taxstats_0.0.5.1415.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 78843919 bytes (75.2 MB) ================================================== downloaded 75.2 MB package 'taxstats' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\appveyor\AppData\Local\Temp\1\Rtmp6HCDYs\downloaded_packages [1] TRUE I understand that available.packages() using caching, but rebooting my computer did not change this result (I'm not sure if this is sufficient to eliminate the possibility that caching is masking a problem). Sorry that this package is causing problems on CRAN. Very appreciative of your patience. Hugh. On 6 February 2018 at 04:19, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > 1. > The repository is obviously *not* available for Windows as > > https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/bin/windows/contrib/3.5/PACKAGES > > does not exist. > > > 2. >> Since the failures only occur on Windows machines, and have only >> appeared recently, I have considered modifying the DESCRIPTION file to >> 'trick' win-builder into reinstalling taxstats > > > -> This is strictly prohibited and you will be banned of CRAN if you try > that. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > > On 05.02.2018 12:28, Hugh Parsonage wrote: >> >> I am unable to reproduce a recent R CMD check failure on CRAN >> concerning a package of mine: grattan. >> >> This package Suggests: taxstats which is a large package hosted by an >> Additional repository: https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ >> >> When I run this check locally, on travis, and on appveyor with >> _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_ = true I get the expected NOTE: >> >> >> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE >> Maintainer: ‘Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>’ >> Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories: >> taxstats >> Availability using Additional_repositories specification: >> taxstats yes https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ >> >> >> However, on CRAN (including win-builder) I get the rather curious NOTE: >> >> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE >> Maintainer: 'Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>' >> >> Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories: >> taxstats >> Availability using Additional_repositories specification: >> taxstats no ? >> ? ? https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ >> Additional repositories with no packages: >> https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ >> >> >> followed by errors resulting from failures to install 'taxstats' when >> code such as the following is run to re-build vignettes: >> >> if (requireNamespace("taxstats", quietly = TRUE)){ >> library(taxstats) >> } else { >> templib <- tempfile() >> hutils::provide.dir(templib) >> install.packages("taxstats", >> lib = templib, >> repos = "https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/", >> type = "source") >> library("taxstats", lib.loc = templib) >> } >> >> >> Since the failures only occur on Windows machines, and have only >> appeared recently, I have considered modifying the DESCRIPTION file to >> 'trick' win-builder into reinstalling taxstats, as I suspect there may >> be caching issues. However, given that the 'taxstats' package takes a >> fairly long time to install, I don't want to do this nor submit to >> CRAN in case I am missing something else that's causing the check to >> fail. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> > ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel