[R-pkg-devel] advice on a rejected package (I think, because time was 13min, in excess of 10min limit)

[Daniel Kelley]

Today I tried to update the CRAN oce package to version 1.7-3, to address a problem with 1.7-2 on one of the CRAN build platforms.  I used devtools::release() to submit it.  I just received the text I've pasted at the bottom of this email.  I've checked all the links, and my impression is that the sole problem is that the build took 13 minutes, which is over a 10-minute limit.

Since oce is a big package, I am not sure that removing the tests and documentation examples would reduce the time by 30%. There is a lot of C, C++ and fortran code that takes a while to build. And a package lacking code examples and a test suite is not likely to please my users, many of whom are scientists without deep coding experience.

During the previous submission, this time limit flag was also raised, and I asked R-package-devel for advice on what to do.  Someone suggested that I wait a week, in case a CRAN member would notice and put the package through. That worked, but my concern is whether this is the approach that makes for less work on the CRAN side.

So, I wonder whether the advice on this list is again to leave it alone and wait, or to contact CRAN?

Dan Kelley / Dept. Oceanography / Dalhousie University / Halifax, Nova Scotia / Canada


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Dear maintainer,

package oce_1.7-3.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, please see the following pre-tests:
Windows: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/oce_1.7-3_20220511_192652/Windows/00check.log>
Status: OK
Debian: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/oce_1.7-3_20220511_192652/Debian/00check.log>
Status: OK

Last released version's CRAN status: OK: 4, NOTE: 8, ERROR: 1
See: <https://CRAN.R-project.org/web/checks/check_results_oce.html>

CRAN Web: <https://cran.r-project.org/package=oce>

Please fix all problems and resubmit a fixed version via the webform.
If you are not sure how to fix the problems shown, please ask for help on the R-package-devel mailing list:
<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel>
If you are fairly certain the rejection is a false positive, please reply-all to this message and explain.

More details are given in the directory:
<https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/oce_1.7-3_20220511_192652/>
The files will be removed after roughly 7 days.

*** Strong rev. depends ***: argoFloats dendroTools morphomap seacarb skyscapeR soundecology SWMPr vprr

Best regards,
CRAN teams' auto-check service
Flavor: r-devel-windows-x86_64
Check: CRAN incoming feasibility, Result: NA
Maintainer: 'Dan Kelley <Dan.Kelley using Dal.Ca>'

Flavor: r-devel-windows-x86_64
Check: Overall checktime, Result: NOTE
Overall checktime 13 min > 10 min

Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
Check: CRAN incoming feasibility, Result: Note_to_CRAN_maintainers
Maintainer: 'Dan Kelley <Dan.Kelley using Dal.Ca>'