My latest submission of survival3.1-10 to CRAN fails? a check, but only on windows, which I don't use. How do I track this down? The test in question works fine on my Linux box. Terry [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Hi Terry, http://win-builder.r-project.org/ and the rhub build service (which can be invoked by the rhub package) allow on demand checks in windows environments, though for active debugging the iteration time can be quite painful. If you have access, e.g., through your employer, to a windows license you should also be able to do use VMWare or VirtualBox (I can never remember which one I like more) to run windows and test that way. This will have some start up cost in effort but allows active testing and iteration. Hope that helps, ~G On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 7:00 AM Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel < r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:> My latest submission of survival3.1-10 to CRAN fails a check, but only on > windows, which > I don't use. > How do I track this down? > The test in question works fine on my Linux box. > > Terry > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Microsoft offers fully-provisioned but time-limited developer images
for Windows 10 (I think they last for 3 months) for most major VM
platforms (including VirtualBox, which is the one I currently use).
There would certainly be a start-up cost in effort, but probably not any
financial cost.
cheers
Ben Bolker
On 2020-03-03 4:02 p.m., Gabriel Becker wrote:> Hi Terry,
>
> http://win-builder.r-project.org/ and the rhub build service (which can be
> invoked by the rhub package) allow on demand checks in windows
> environments, though for active debugging the iteration time can be quite
> painful.
>
> If you have access, e.g., through your employer, to a windows license you
> should also be able to do use VMWare or VirtualBox (I can never remember
> which one I like more) to run windows and test that way. This will have
> some start up cost in effort but allows active testing and iteration.
>
> Hope that helps,
> ~G
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 7:00 AM Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel <
> r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:
>
>> My latest submission of survival3.1-10 to CRAN fails a check, but only
on
>> windows, which
>> I don't use.
>> How do I track this down?
>> The test in question works fine on my Linux box.
>>
>> Terry
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FWIW Microsoft provides evaluation version of Windows that can be easily installed using VirtualBox and runs for 180 days. One that I believe is the closest to the CRAN setup (Windows 2008) is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=11093 You just tell VB to setup a Windows 2008 VM then, select the downloaded ISO as CD-ROM drive and install from it. The installation is fairly easy and then you only have to download Rtools.exe and R from CRAN. I recommend picking a custom location for R that is painless to type, e.g C:\R. To make iteration easier, I also use a shared mount from my machine (e.g. ~/packages -> E:) so I can edit and build the package on my Mac and then just run c:\R\bin\R CMD INSTALL mypackage_0.1-0.tar.gz in the Windows VM is the same directory (you need to install Guest Additions [see the VB menu] to enable shared directories - alternatively you can also just use SMB shares if you want). Cheers, Simon> On 4/03/2020, at 10:02 AM, Gabriel Becker <gabembecker at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Terry, > > http://win-builder.r-project.org/ and the rhub build service (which can be > invoked by the rhub package) allow on demand checks in windows > environments, though for active debugging the iteration time can be quite > painful. > > If you have access, e.g., through your employer, to a windows license you > should also be able to do use VMWare or VirtualBox (I can never remember > which one I like more) to run windows and test that way. This will have > some start up cost in effort but allows active testing and iteration. > > Hope that helps, > ~G > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 7:00 AM Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel < > r-devel at r-project.org> wrote: > >> My latest submission of survival3.1-10 to CRAN fails a check, but only on >> windows, which >> I don't use. >> How do I track this down? >> The test in question works fine on my Linux box. >> >> Terry >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >