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
   r-lib/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.