Gábor Csárdi

Oh, right, so you are running it without any arguments? Then it would indeed make sense to be able to pass some arguments....

@klmr Yeah, I like that.

FWIW if I call ``` /private/tmp/mootools main* 7s ❯ R CMD build r ``` from your repo, that also fails, although with a different error: ``` ** help Loading required...

> Or simply check if the package is not available for some OS and skip it with a warning. What do you mean by "not available"? There is no binary...

Sorry for the long wait! There is a way now, see `?ignore` and similar at https://pak.r-lib.org/reference/pak_package_sources.html#currently-supported-parameters

How about `?ignore-build-errors`? Or maybe `?ignore-build-errors&ignore-unavailable`?

It is not in the documentation but it should work, I have been using it for a while now.

`check-r-package` already defaults to `--as-cran`, and according to their policies that's what you are supposed to do before a submission. I understand that this is probably not enough in practice,...

IDK of any workarounds, apart from turning off Rosetta: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/384 Emulating Fedora on arm64 is also very slow, in general, also on Linux. Much slower than Ubuntu. I suspect that...

> Thanks. Colima is [abiosoft/colima](https://github.com/abiosoft/colima), an OSS alternative to Docker Desktop. I haven't tried with Docker Desktop yet. That should not matter, they both use qemu or Rosetta. This issue...