[Rd] [External] Re: [R-pkg-devel] Tracking down inconsistent errors and notes across operating systems

[iuke-tier@ey m@iii@g oii uiow@@edu]

Thanks; fix committed in r80654.

Best,

luke

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Bill Dunlap wrote:

> A small example of the problem is 
> #define USE_RINTERNALS 1
> #include <R.h>
> #include <Rinternals.h>
> #include <Rdefines.h>
> static s_object* obj = NULL;
> 
> Prior to 2021-07-20, with svn 80639, this compiled but after, svn 80647,
> that I get
> 
> $ gcc -I"/mnt/c/R/R-svn/trunk/src/include" -I.   -I/usr/local/include  
> -fpic  -g -O2 -flto -c s_object.c 2>&1
> In file included from s_object.c:5:
> /mnt/c/R/R-svn/trunk/src/include/Rdefines.h:168:33: error: unknown type name
> ‘SEXPREC’
>   168 | #define s_object                SEXPREC
>       |                                 ^~~~~~~
> s_object.c:7:8: note: in expansion of macro ‘s_object’
>     7 | static s_object* obj = NULL;
>       |        ^~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 10:18 AM Bill Dunlap <williamwdunlap using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>       I think the problem with RPostgreSQL/sec/RS-DBI.c comes from
>       some changes to Defn.h and Rinternals.h in RHOME/include that
>       Luke made recently (2021-07-20, svn 80647).  Since then the
>       line   #define s_object SEXPREC
> in Rdefines.h causes problems.  Should it now be 'struct SEXPREC'?
> 
> -Bill
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 7:04 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar using fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>       Hi,
>
>       On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 15:51, Hannah Owens
>       <hannah.owens using gmail.com> wrote:
>       >
>       > Hi all,
>       > I am working on an update to a package I have on CRAN
>       called occCite. My
>       > latest release attempt didn’t pass incoming automated
>       checks, because there
>       > is an outstanding error. Additionally, there are some
>       weird notes I would
>       > like to get rid of, if anyone has suggestions.
>       >
>       > The killing error is in r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc,
>       which is: Packages
>       > required but not available: 'BIEN', 'taxize',
>       ‘RPostgreSQL'
>       >
>       > I don’t understand this, as it is the only system that
>       throws this error,
>       > and the packages mentioned are available via CRAN. Any
>       suggestions?
>
>       This kind of message usually arises when there is some
>       problem with
>       those packages on CRAN. Indeed,
>
>       https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_BIEN.html
>       https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_taxize.html
>       https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RPostgreSQL.html
>
>       the three of them have ERRORs in that platform. No issue
>       on your end.
>       You reply pointing to that.
>
>       > Additionally, there are multiple platforms
>       > (r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang;
>       r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc;
>       > r-devel-windows-x86_64-gcc10-UCRT;
>       r-patched-solaris-x86;
>       > r-release-macos-arm64; r-release-macos-x86_64;
>       r-oldrel-macos-x86_64) where
>       > two notes pop up:
>       >
>       > NOTE 1: Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
>       ‘bit64’ All declared
>       > Imports should be used.
>       >
>       > The package does use bit64. Any tips on how to address
>       this note?
>
>       Are you sure? Your NAMESPACE file does not import(bit64)
>       nor
>       importFrom(bit64,) anything.
>
>       > NOTE 2: Found 6 marked UTF-8 strings.
>       >
>       > I presume this is thrown because of the small sample
>       dataset I’ve included
>       > in the package, but why is it not thrown for all the
>       platforms?
>
>       Not all the checks are necessarily done in all the
>       platforms. You can
>       silence this NOTE by converting the offending strings in
>       your datasets
>       to ASCII and resaving them.
>
>       --
>       Iñaki Úcar
>
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> 
>

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