Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package update submission to CRAN fails on pretest

2018-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Lenhard
Dear Hadley, many thanks for your comment and much more for your fantastic tutorial and packages! I essentially learned (and still learn) package development by your tutorial. In the concrete case, changing some settings finally did it and devtools worked like charm. I want to thank you for

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggested package relies on recent R

2018-12-08 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Yes, I certainly will do that. I've checked on win-builder and the package seems to pass, so my examples seem to be in good order. David On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 at 15:17, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 8 December 2018 at 14:41, David Hugh-Jones wrote: > | Thanks guys. If CRAN already sets

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggested package relies on recent R

2018-12-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 December 2018 at 14:41, David Hugh-Jones wrote: | Thanks guys. If CRAN already sets FORCE_SUGGESTS = false, then I think I | don't have a problem. I think you still do as long as you ignore Duncan's advice. It's not "just" about skirting CRAN tests and rules, it is about doing packaging

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggested package relies on recent R

2018-12-08 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Thanks guys. If CRAN already sets FORCE_SUGGESTS = false, then I think I don't have a problem. David On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 at 14:36, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 08/12/2018 9:28 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > > Can you just set _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false? > > > > env: > >global: > ># don't

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package update submission to CRAN fails on pretest

2018-12-08 Thread Hadley Wickham
You might try reinstalling devtools and dependencies - there was unfortunately a brief combination of versions that lead to build() failing to overwrite existing files. Hadley On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 10:46 AM Wolfgang Lenhard wrote: > > Many thanks for the remark. It seems, it has something to do

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggested package relies on recent R

2018-12-08 Thread Hadley Wickham
Can you just set _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false? env: global: # don't treat missing suggested packages as error - _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false I am reasonably certain that is what CRAN uses. Hadley On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 9:11 AM David Hugh-Jones wrote: > > Hi, > > My package Suggests