devtools not producing some NOTES or WARNINGS

[IndrajeetPatil]

I am using devtools 1.13.6 on a Windows 10 machine. It has happened to me multiple times now where I run devtools::check() and some rhub checks, get 0 Errors | 0 Warnings | 0 Notes, and then submit to CRAN and get either warnings or notes that I hadn't seen before and have my package rejected:

For example-

1. Bad URLs (not found with devtools, but spotted by CRAN's R CMD CHECK)

Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs:
  URL: https://indrajeetpatil.github.io/ggstatsplot/articles/ggspiestats.html
    From: inst/doc/ggcoefstats.html
    Status: 404
    Message: Not Found

2. Unused dependencies (not found by devtools, but by rhub)

3. Avoiding running spell check test on CRAN servers
   default to not running spell check tests on CRAN servers usethis#408

Am I doing something wrong? Are there some other checks I should be running with devtools, in addition to devtools::check() and devtools::check_win_devel() that can help me catch errors like these?

[jimhester]

devtools::check() by default does not run the 'version' or 'incoming' checks, because they take a while to run and have to check CRANs or other external servers. You can run them by passing devtools::check(check_version = TRUE)

devtools::check_win_devel() runs on win-builder, which is an identical setup to the CRANs autocheck makines, so it will give you the same results as what you would get when submitting to CRAN.

[jimhester]

It is possible this could be better documented, or the argument could be renamed to make it more clear which tests are suppressed.

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