Vignette building error in check-standard workflow

[pakjiddat]

The "Check" step in the check-standard workflow fails with this error:

See the attached log archive.
logs_102.zip

The error is in the vignette building process. All 4 operating systems mentioned in the workflow give the same error.

The workflow has a step called "Upload check results". It is used to upload the "check" directory as a workflow artifact. But the check directory is not found, so I cannot view the log files.

I ran devtools:check on my local computer and it worked without problems. I also ran devtools::check_rhub() on Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora, MacOs and Solaris. The check passed on all platforms without error. Maybe its an issue with the knitr or rmarkdown version number.

[jimhester]

I get the same error as github actions locally when cloning your https://github.com/pakjiddat/word-predictor repo and running rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(). I would guess you have forgotten to commit a necessary file.

Also please re-read the pre-populated issue text, perhaps you misread it.

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[jimhester]

In particular you are trying to read data files in the vignette that don't exist at https://github.com/pakjiddat/word-predictor/blob/1b6a99102cdc5ace8ffdb1836d92469e17e217dc/vignettes/features.Rmd#L65-L68.

You need to include these in your repository if you use them in the vignette.

[pakjiddat]

I had added the folder inst/extdata to .gitignore. So the required data files were not added to the GitHub repo. I had added the entry to .gitignore because the data files take up a lot of space in the repo.

But I reduced the size of the data files as suggested by CRAN policies. So it should not be a problem with adding the data files to the repo. However I forgot to remove the inst/extdata entry from .gitignore. After removing the entry from .gitignore I committed the changes and the check-standard workflow ran without problems. Thanks for your help !.

[pakjiddat]

After uploading the missing data files, the check-standard workflow passed for Ubuntu (devel), Ubuntu (release) and Windows (release), but failed for MacOs (release). It gives the following error on MacOs:

See the downloaded log file.
logs_110.zip

The error message suggests that a file cannot be opened. But this error only shows on MacOs and not the other platforms. So it may be an issue with the environment setup.

I posted a related issue for the check-release workflow on RStudio Community but have not received a reply.

Also the check-standard workflow takes about 21 min to run on Windows and 13 min to run on Ubuntu (devel). Almost all the time is spent in the "Install Dependencies" step. But on Ubuntu (release) it takes about 5 min. It would be useful to have the workflow complete in less time.

[pakjiddat]

I finally managed to fix the error in check-standard workflow on MacOs. Now the check-standard workflow runs fine. It also takes much less time than before. All other workflows are also working fine.

The problem was that the code in lines 223-242 in features.Rmd file was displaying a ggplot object using print command. I updated the method so it first saves the ggplot object to a file and then displays the file as a normal image.

I think the problem was that the print command requires access to a temporary folder. But on MacOs, the file could not be saved because of folder permissions.

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