R devel - Dec 2016 - Check package issue on mavericks

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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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server, perhaps xquartz is outdated.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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>
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> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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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> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>
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