[Rcpp-devel] Debugging intermittant vignette re-building failure

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 8 January 2019 at 21:31, Fellows, Ian wrote:
| I have a package ( https://github.com/statnet/lolog | https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lolog/index.html ) that makes extensive use of Rcpp modules and passes module objects up and down between R and C++ regularly. I’ve used the package extensively in large simulation studies, and analyses where it has been stable.
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| However, I have become aware of an intermittent failure to re-build the vignettes during R CMD check. I’ve only ever encountered the issue during check. Every once in a while I get WARNINGS like the following:

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| I’ve attempted to isolate the problem to something of a smaller but have thus far been unsuccessful. Since this only happens occasionally, I thought it might have something to do with how I’m passing objects up and down ( see for example: https://github.com/statnet/lolog/blob/master/inst/include/Model.h#L89 and https://github.com/statnet/lolog/blob/master/inst/include/util.h#L29 ), but that is just a shot in the dark.
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| Does anyone have any insight as to how i might be able to better debug this or intuitions about what could be the cause? Is it possible to get a stack trace when rebuilding the vignettes?

I do not. I have at times simplified, going as far as rendering the tex
locally and shipping a not-really-vignette vignette that is just pdf.

Which is of course a cop-out. That should be debug-able but one does not
always get to the bottom ...  Maybe someone else has a better idea.

Dirk

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