CreatePackageReport() fails with error "there is no package"

Open jameslamb opened this issue 6 years ago • 0 comments

I'm unsure of the exact issue, but the Function Network (produced FunctionReporter) is broken for some packages.

To reproduce:

pkg_name <- YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME
CreatePackageReport(
    pkg_name
    , report_path = file.path(getwd(), "report.html")
)

This produces an error like the following:

## Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]): there is no package called 'spatstat.data'

For the following combinations of (YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME, package in error message):

alphahull, spatstat.data
BradleyTerry2, profileModel
brms, StanHeaders
brglm, profileModel
btergm, ergm.count
cartogram, spData
classInt, spData
csampling, marg
doRedis, rredis
doRNG, rngtools
Ecdat, Ecfun
ei, gmm
geojsonio, spData
kangar00, biomaRt
mapview, spData
OceanView, plot3D
pgirmess, spData
prefmod, gnm
prim, rgl
RH2, RJDBC
randtoolbox, rngWELL
rnaturalearth, spData
rstan, StanHeaders
spam, dotCall64
spatstat, spatstat.data
splm, spData
statnet, ergm.count
tm, NLP
tmap, spData
tmapdata, spData
tmvtnorm, gmm
ZeligEI, gmm

Fixing this error probably means finding the common thread between how each of those packages uses the package being complained about.

I can confirm that each of the "could not find packages" is something that I don't have installed locally. So maybe the issue is that all of those are in Suggests or LinkingTo or Enhances (meaning I didn't need to install them) but something in our code is finding a hard dependency on them.

discovered via the code in #252

Oct 22 '19 03:10 jameslamb