[Rd] Check package issue on mavericks

[Gionata Bocci]

Dear Jeroen,

   Thank you very much for the time you spent checking my package; I think
I will upload the package to CRAN hoping that this will be considered as a
non-existing issue.
   Thanks again,

Gionata.

2016-12-11 18:09 GMT+01:00 Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms at gmail.com>:

> I just checked your package on a mavericks VM and it seems fine, so I
> wouldn't worry about it. Probably some configuration issue on the CRAN
> server, perhaps xquartz is outdated.
>
> Unfortunately there is no easy way anymore to check on Mavericks.
> Travis used to support it, but they have deprecated mavericks (along
> with Apple and homebrew). Hopefully CRAN will update to the current
> MacOS for the next release of R.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Gionata Bocci <boccigionata at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear List,
> >
> >   I've realized that the "CRAN Checking Package" system returns some
> > Warnings for my package TR8 under "r-release-osx-x86_64-mavericks"; all
> the
> > warnings include the following message "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"
> > which I find a little cryptic.
> >   After some web searches, I understood that "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE" is
> related
> > to the X server and most of the messages reporting issues with that are
> > related to R packages having problems with "mavericks" (either NOTES or
> > Warnings resulting from the "checking process").
> >   Not having a Mac available where I could try to explore this issue (and
> > not being familiar with Mac in general), I've set up a Travis CI account
> in
> > order to check whether the package was built and "checked --as-cran" on
> > both Linux (my OS) and Mac OSX (Travis is using OS X versions >= 10.10):
> it
> > looks like everything is fine, correctly built and checked.
> >   I am thus writing to ask if other developers on the list have found and
> > fixed this issue (so that I could fix that as well and tick the checkbox
> "I
> > have fixed all problems shown on the package check page" before
> submitting
> > a new version to CRAN).
> >   Best,
> >
> >
> > Gionata.
> >
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