Of course the Great And Powerful Ushey did the super-smart thing and actually tested the code locally. Apologies for not thinking of doing the same on my end (though I'm also OS X):
> getwd() [1] "/Users/bob/Development/pathological" > test() Loading pathological Loading required package: testthat Testing pathological ..................1..2..W................................................................................................................... Warnings ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. copy_dir works with recursive = TRUE (@test_dir_copy.R#34) - The files ‘javaconf’, ‘ldpaths’, ‘Makeconf’, ‘Renviron’, ‘repositories’ were not copied successfully. Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Failure: decompose_path handles missing paths. (@test_decompose_path.R#279) - `warnings` does not match "Coercing .+ to class [[:punct:]]character[[:punct:]]\\.". Actual value: "Coercing x to class ‘character’." 2. Failure: decompose_path works with a factor input. (@test_decompose_path.R#329) `warnings` does not match "Coercing .+ to class [[:punct:]]character[[:punct:]]\\.". Actual value: "Coercing x to class ‘character’." DONE =========================================================================== I'm using R version 3.3.0 RC (2016-05-01 r70572) & testthat 1.0.2 (2016-04-23 CRAN (R 3.3.0) I also get those same two errors on a slightly out-of-date R-devel on Ubuntu. On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:09 AM, Kevin Ushey <kevinus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible that `getwd()` is reporting something on the CRAN build > servers that your `decompose_path()` doesn't handle? For example, your > tests fail for me if I run them while in the root directory (on OS X). > > Kevin > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Richard Cotton <richiero...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Thanks Bob, >> >> I'd forgotten about the option to run win-builder against R-devel. >> >> Though it seems that in this case, all the tests are passing there too. >> >> http://win-builder.r-project.org/21kc9XGKdANF/examples_and_tests/tests_i386/testthat.Rout >> http://win-builder.r-project.org/21kc9XGKdANF/examples_and_tests/tests_x64/testthat.Rout >> >> I'm now completely out of ideas as to where the problem could be. >> >> >> On 11 May 2016 at 15:46, boB Rudis <b...@rudis.net> wrote: >>> did you try winbuilder R-devel? I occasionally (ok, often) forget to >>> do that and it sometimes kick out different errors than R-devel on >>> local systems. >>> >>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Richard Cotton <richiero...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Yesterday I uploaded a new version of the pathological package to >>>> CRAN. It was initially accepted but today I got a message saying that >>>> some of the tests for the decompose_path function are failing under >>>> Windows. >>>> >>>> I've tested the package on a local Windows 10 machine with R-3.3.0 and >>>> R-devel, and in Win 7 and Win 8 compatibility modes, and on Windows >>>> Server 2012 via AppVeyor. In all cases, all the tests pass. >>>> >>>> I tried the CRAN win builder service today, and again, all tests pass. >>>> http://win-builder.r-project.org/0ZrX4I75nvzM/examples_and_tests/tests_i386/testthat.Rout >>>> http://win-builder.r-project.org/0ZrX4I75nvzM/examples_and_tests/tests_x64/testthat.Rout >>>> >>>> The failure portion of the output I got from Uwe is as follows: >>>> >>>> * checking tests ... ERROR >>>> Running the tests in 'tests/testthat.R' failed. >>>> Last 13 lines of output: >>>> 1. Failure: decompose_path handles paths with no directory and a >>>> single extension in the filename. (@test_decompose_path.R#42) >>>> 2. Failure: decompose_path handles paths with no directory and a >>>> double extension in the filename. (@test_decompose_path.R#72) >>>> 3. Failure: decompose_path handles paths with no directory and no >>>> extension in the filename. (@test_decompose_path.R#103) >>>> 4. Failure: decompose_path handles filenames containing a '.' and an >>>> extension. (@test_decompose_path.R#133) >>>> 5. Failure: decompose_path handles the current directory as '.'. >>>> (@test_decompose_path.R#221) >>>> 6. Failure: decompose_path handles the parent directory as '..'. >>>> (@test_decompose_path.R#236) >>>> 7. Failure: decompose_path handles files inside '.'. >>>> (@test_decompose_path.R#251) >>>> 8. Failure: decompose_path works with a character vector input. >>>> (@test_decompose_path.R#321) >>>> 9. Failure: decompose_path works with a factor input. >>>> (@test_decompose_path.R#333) >>>> 1. ... >>>> >>>> >>>> Since this isn't hugely informative as to the problem, I'd like >>>> general advice on how I can diagnose a failing test when I can't >>>> reproduce it. >>>> >>>> It would also be useful if anyone can run R CMD check and see if they >>>> find test failures. >>>> >>>> The CRAN release is here (the problematic version is 0.0-8): >>>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pathological >>>> >>>> and the github version is currently in the same state, available here: >>>> https://github.com/richierocks/pathological >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> Richie >>>> >>>> Learning R >>>> 4dpiecharts.com >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Richie >> >> Learning R >> 4dpiecharts.com >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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