CRAN notice: issues need fixing before 2024-07-31

[llrs]

There is a deadline in withr that is fast approaching in 8 days and I don't see activity since January, in addition it is the day before CRAN team leaves for holidays so there isn't much time if the submission is not successful and close to the deadline.

The problems seem easy to fix:

1. A warning for documentation mismatches: Check: for code/documentation mismatches
2. An error in a test file (which can be harder to fix): cannot open file '/Volumes/Builds/packages/big-sur-arm64/Rlib/4.4/cli/R/sysdata.rdb': No such file or directory

Is there anything we could do to help?

[chainsawriot]

The second one appears to be false positive to me.

The first one is due to this update to the pdf() in R-devel.

https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/blob/10fd4bd431f4d9ebf85dc94dacd7bc305d36d3fe/doc/NEWS.Rd#L45-L48

whilst here, the documentation inherits the parameters from pdf()

withr/R/devices.R

Line 119 in 3344152

#' @inheritParams grDevices::pdf

One solution is to hardcode the documentation.

[llrs]

1. Writing down the parameter would be a nice solution. But I think updating the docs, just roxygen2::document(), would be easy and enough to fix it.
2. It has been constant in the last few days. I don't think it is a false positive.

[chainsawriot]

The output of roxygen2::document() depends on R version if @inheritParams grDevices::pdf is used. If we run roxygen2::document() on r-devel (thus adding "timestamp" and friends), the output will break r-release and r-oldrel.

The first one does look like an incorrect installation of cli (usually it can be fixed by either reinstalling or restarting). But I might be wrong.

[hadley]

Seems likely that the cli problem is a false positive.

Hopefully we're not at risk removal for not updating docs for a function that was only changed two weeks ago 😬.

[hadley]

@lionel- for R-devel, I think it would be nice to default to reproducible PDFs, i.e. setting timestamp and author to FALSE.

[lionel-]

FYI y'all I got the email the day I left for vacations with a 2 week notice!

That's only the first deadline though so withr is not at risk from being removed from CRAN anytime soon.

[lionel-]

On its way to CRAN.

[llrs]

Thanks! I hope you enjoyed your holidays!
The new deadline (2024-08-18) I assume is because checks haven't catch up with the new version yet.

[lionel-]

I think so, that new deadline was on the page before the release was sent.