note when sending new version of package to cran "checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... Note_to_CRAN_maintainers" wont let me send it to CRAN

Question

I am aware that this issue has been answered before , and that I am supposed to ignore that message, however, when I send the package to cran I get an automatic response from Uwe Ligges stating:

Dear maintainer,

package NetworkExtinction_0.1.1.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, please see the following pre-tests: Windows: < https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/NetworkExtinction_0.1.1_20191026_190159/Windows/00check.log > Status: 1 NOTE

If you check that link, you will see that the only note I get is:

* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... Note_to_CRAN_maintainers
Maintainer: 'Derek Corcoran <derek.corcoran.barrios@gmail.com>'

Any idea on how I can pass that note? I have seen that many developers have had that problem, should I reply that I think is a false positive?

Many Thanks

Answer 1

Though the email you get points you to the log, and this contains only a Note_to_CRAN_maintainers warning, if you look at the bottom of the email, "CRAN teams' auto-check service", there will typically be a problem raised.

The common problem that doesn't appear in the log is the overall check time.

This is usually driven by long examples (manually need to find these) or lengthy tests... Just have to cut or remove test files to speed checking on the overburdened CRAN machines.

Flavor: r-devel-windows-x86_64 Check: Overall checktime, Result: NOTE Overall checktime 20 min > 10 min

Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc Check: CRAN incoming feasibility, Result: Note_to_CRAN_maintainers Maintainer: 'Youan me you@me.com'