Re: [R-pkg-devel] Mysterious "invalid z limit"

2023-01-08 Thread Ben Bolker
On 2023-01-08 1:38 p.m., Spencer Graves wrote: On 1/8/23 11:36 AM, Kevin Coombes wrote: I have been using R-Forge for many years for package development. And I have been using GitLab for other projects almost as long. However, over the past few months, the R-Forge support seems to be

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Mysterious "invalid z limit"

2023-01-08 Thread Spencer Graves
On 1/8/23 11:36 AM, Kevin Coombes wrote: I have been using R-Forge for many years for package development. And I have been using GitLab for other projects almost as long. However, over the past few months, the R-Forge support seems to be decaying, and I now have several projects that won't

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Mysterious "invalid z limit"

2023-01-08 Thread Kevin Coombes
I have been using R-Forge for many years for package development. And I have been using GitLab for other projects almost as long. However, over the past few months, the R-Forge support seems to be decaying, and I now have several projects that won't currently build there because of various items

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Mysterious "invalid z limit"

2023-01-08 Thread Spencer Graves
If you use GitHub, I highly recommend using "GitHub Action" as described by Wickham and Bryan, R Packages: https://r-pkgs.org/code.html#code-style I'm not sure the best way to get it set up, but I have all my packages on GitHub configured so each "push" that changes anything has "R

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Mysterious "invalid z limit"

2023-01-08 Thread Kevin R. Coombes
A very helpful answer. For some reason (probably because I have an ancient perl script that automates the steps i take when building and checking packages), I keep forgetting that the "tools" package let's me do these things from within R. I had already isolated the offending line

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Mysterious "invalid z limit"

2023-01-08 Thread Kevin R. Coombes
A terrific answer; thanks. (I am kicking myself for not realizing the answer you gave to question 1. Of course that's the explanation. Too many consecutive hours debugging other items to get to that point, I suppose.)   Kevin On 1/8/2023 6:58 AM, Ivan Krylov wrote: On Sat, 7 Jan 2023

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Mysterious "invalid z limit"

2023-01-08 Thread Ivan Krylov
On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 20:43:10 -0500 "Kevin R. Coombes" wrote: > (1) How is it possible that the same code works error > free in the RStudio contexts, but fails in the attempt to build the > package? When knitting the vignette from RStudio, it uses the package you already have installed. When

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Mysterious "invalid z limit"

2023-01-08 Thread Georgi Boshnakov
A frequent cause of such errors is that in the offending scenario a method is not visible, so the call goes directly to the default method. This often can be verified by temporarily printing something from your method when it gets control. Without more details it is difficult to be more

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Mysterious "invalid z limit"

2023-01-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 07/01/2023 8:43 p.m., Kevin R. Coombes wrote: Hi, I am in the middle of developing a new package, which contains a markdown-knitr-html vignette. When I try to run R CMD build [mypackagedirectory] I get an error message Quitting from lines 330-336 Error: processing vignette  failed with