R devel - Dec 2011 - Why is the 64bit Windows version of package RSVGTipsDevice not available on CRAN?

On CRAN, the package RSVGTipsDevice is only installed for 32bit Windows, and is
not available as a 64bit package for Windows.

The file linked to in the package check summary on CRAN says "NB: this
package is only installed for sub-architecture 'i386' ".

What do I need to do to make it available as both 64bit and 32bit on CRAN? (I am
the maintainer of the package).

It builds, checks and runs fine as a 64 bit package on my own Windows 64 bit
(XP) machine.

Has a flag has been set somewhere because some time in the past this package had
problems running in 64 bit mode?

Here's the truncated output from the link from CRAN package check page:

http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-windows-ix86+x86_64/RSVGTipsDevice-00check.html

  * using R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
  * using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
  * using session charset: ISO8859-1
  * checking for file 'RSVGTipsDevice/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
  * this is package 'RSVGTipsDevice' version '1.0-4'
  * checking package namespace information ... OK
  * checking package dependencies ... OK
  * checking if this is a source package ... OK
  * checking if there is a namespace ... OK
  * checking whether package 'RSVGTipsDevice' can be installed ... OK
  * checking installed package size ... OK
    NB: this package is only installed for sub-architecture 'i386'
  * checking package directory ... OK
  * checking for portable file names ... OK
  * ... [truncated]


Here's the output of R CMD check on my own machine:

$ /cygdrive/c/R/R-2.14.0/bin/x64/R.exe CMD check RSVGTipsDevice_1.0-4.tar.gz
* using log directory
'D:/tplate/R/rforge/rsvgtipsdevice/RSVGTipsDevice.Rcheck'
* using R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
* using platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32 (64-bit)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* checking for file 'RSVGTipsDevice/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'RSVGTipsDevice' version '1.0-4'
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking if there is a namespace ... OK
* checking for executable files ... OK
* checking whether package 'RSVGTipsDevice' can be installed ... OK
* checking installed package size ... OK
* checking package directory ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking top-level files ... OK
* checking index information ... OK
* checking package subdirectories ... OK
* checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
* checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
* loading checks for arch 'i386'
** checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
** checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
** checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
** checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
** checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
* loading checks for arch 'x64'
** checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
** checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
** checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
** checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
** checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in R code ... OK
* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
* checking replacement functions ... OK
* checking foreign function calls ... OK
* checking R code for possible problems ... OK
* checking Rd files ... OK
* checking Rd metadata ... OK
* checking Rd cross-references ... OK
* checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
* checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
* checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
* checking Rd contents ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK
* checking line endings in C/C++/Fortran sources/headers ... OK
* checking line endings in Makefiles ... OK
* checking for portable use of $(BLAS_LIBS) and $(LAPACK_LIBS) ... OK
* checking compiled code ... OK
* checking examples ...
** running examples for arch 'i386' ... OK
** running examples for arch 'x64' ... OK
* checking PDF version of manual ... OK


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This is because it does not pass 64-bit checks for me in the CRAN 
checks, doing it manually, it just crashed here (further discussion 
perhaps better off list):



* checking examples ...
** running examples for arch 'i386' ... OK
** running examples for arch 'x64' ... ERROR
Running examples in 'RSVGTipsDevice-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

 > ### Name: RSVGTipsDevice
 > ### Title: A SVG Graphics Driver with dynamic tips
 > ### Aliases: RSVGTipsDevice
 > ### Keywords: device package
 >
 > ### ** Examples
 >
 > library("RSVGTipsDevice")
 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=C                 LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=C                LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] RSVGTipsDevice_1.0-4
 > devSVGTips("svgplot1.svg", toolTipMode=1,
+     title="SVG example plot 1: shapes and points, tooltips are title + 
1 line")
 > plot(c(0,10),c(0,10), type="n", xlab="x",
ylab="y",
+     main="Example SVG plot with title + 1 line tips (mode=1)")
 > setSVGShapeToolTip(title="A rectangle", desc="that is
yellow")
 > rect(1,1,4,6, col='yellow')
 > setSVGShapeToolTip(title="1st circle with title only")
 > points(5.5,7.5,cex=20,pch=19,col='red')
 > setSVGShapeToolTip(title="A triangle", desc="big and
green")
 > polygon(c(3,6,8), c(3,6,3), col='green')
 > # no tooltips on these points
 > points(2:8, 8:2, cex=3, pch=19, col='black')
 > # tooltips on each these points
 > invisible(sapply(1:7, function(x)
+ {setSVGShapeToolTip(title=paste("point", x))
+  points(x+1, 8-x, cex=3, pch=1, col='black')}))
 > setSVGShapeToolTip(title="Text", desc="can have a tool tip
too!")
 > text(x=4, y=9, lab="Poke me!", col="blue")
 > dev.off()


Best,
Uwe Ligges




On 20.12.2011 03:59, Tony Plate wrote:
> On CRAN, the package RSVGTipsDevice is only installed for 32bit Windows,
and is not available as a 64bit package for Windows.
>
> The file linked to in the package check summary on CRAN says "NB: this
package is only installed for sub-architecture 'i386' ".
>
> What do I need to do to make it available as both 64bit and 32bit on CRAN?
(I am the maintainer of the package).
>
> It builds, checks and runs fine as a 64 bit package on my own Windows 64
bit (XP) machine.
>
> Has a flag has been set somewhere because some time in the past this
package had problems running in 64 bit mode?
>
> Here's the truncated output from the link from CRAN package check page:
>
>
http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-windows-ix86+x86_64/RSVGTipsDevice-00check.html
>
>    * using R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
>    * using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
>    * using session charset: ISO8859-1
>    * checking for file 'RSVGTipsDevice/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>    * this is package 'RSVGTipsDevice' version '1.0-4'
>    * checking package namespace information ... OK
>    * checking package dependencies ... OK
>    * checking if this is a source package ... OK
>    * checking if there is a namespace ... OK
>    * checking whether package 'RSVGTipsDevice' can be installed ...
OK
>    * checking installed package size ... OK
>      NB: this package is only installed for sub-architecture 'i386'
>    * checking package directory ... OK
>    * checking for portable file names ... OK
>    * ... [truncated]
>
>
> Here's the output of R CMD check on my own machine:
>
> $ /cygdrive/c/R/R-2.14.0/bin/x64/R.exe CMD check
RSVGTipsDevice_1.0-4.tar.gz
> * using log directory
'D:/tplate/R/rforge/rsvgtipsdevice/RSVGTipsDevice.Rcheck'
> * using R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> * using platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32 (64-bit)
> * using session charset: ISO8859-1
> * checking for file 'RSVGTipsDevice/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * this is package 'RSVGTipsDevice' version '1.0-4'
> * checking package namespace information ... OK
> * checking package dependencies ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> * checking if there is a namespace ... OK
> * checking for executable files ... OK
> * checking whether package 'RSVGTipsDevice' can be installed ... OK
> * checking installed package size ... OK
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking for portable file names ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking top-level files ... OK
> * checking index information ... OK
> * checking package subdirectories ... OK
> * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
> * loading checks for arch 'i386'
> ** checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
> ** checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ...
OK
> ** checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
> ** checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies
... OK
> ** checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
> * loading checks for arch 'x64'
> ** checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
> ** checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ...
OK
> ** checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
> ** checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies
... OK
> ** checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
> * checking for unstated dependencies in R code ... OK
> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
> * checking replacement functions ... OK
> * checking foreign function calls ... OK
> * checking R code for possible problems ... OK
> * checking Rd files ... OK
> * checking Rd metadata ... OK
> * checking Rd cross-references ... OK
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
> * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
> * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
> * checking Rd contents ... OK
> * checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK
> * checking line endings in C/C++/Fortran sources/headers ... OK
> * checking line endings in Makefiles ... OK
> * checking for portable use of $(BLAS_LIBS) and $(LAPACK_LIBS) ... OK
> * checking compiled code ... OK
> * checking examples ...
> ** running examples for arch 'i386' ... OK
> ** running examples for arch 'x64' ... OK
> * checking PDF version of manual ... OK
>
>
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