CRAN failures: "there is no package called 'formatR'"

[kbenoit]

For our package quanteda, we're seeing this problem in all of the windows version checks. My interpretation is that the formatR package is unavailable for these platforms, but it's unclear.

Our package was not breaking like this on the CRAN checks until the 4.0 releases started appearing.

    Warning in block_exec(params) :
     Failed to tidy R code in chunk 'unnamed-chunk-14'. Reason:
    Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'formatR'

    Quitting from lines 381-396 (quickstart.Rmd)
    Error: processing vignette 'quickstart.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
    cannot open the connection
    --- failed re-building 'quickstart.Rmd'

    SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
     'quickstart.Rmd'

    Error: Vignette re-building failed.
    Execution halted

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[yihui]

formatR is available on all platforms. The problem is you used the chunk option tidy = TRUE in your vignette, but R CMD check assumes only packages declared as dependencies (either soft or hard) are available when it's running.

Please see https://github.com/constantAmateur/SoupX/pull/48 for the fix (SoupX currently has the same problem as your package).

[kbenoit]

Thanks so much for the quick reply, that fixed it!!