Check PDF sizes error

[cdeterman]

Any idea why appveyor would be crashing out when check the size of PDF files in my R package? The build completes without an issue on Travis CI. The error that keeps coming up is:

• checking sizes of PDF files under 'inst/doc' ...Error: invalid version specification 'true (GNU coreutils) 5.97'

Feel free to have a look at the build here

[rnuske]

I've got the same problem on appveyor.
The package builds fine on a local Linux & Windows and on Travis CI. Tried to google for it but only found gpuR's appveyor logs and this issue.

[mrustl]

Same to me, see: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/KWB-R/kwb-utils

[cdeterman]

This is a few months old now with no further ideas from my end. Want to make sure it doesn't just slip through the cracks.

[vineetbansal]

Exactly the same issue for me on Appveyor as of Jan 2019. (Travis on Linux runs fine)

[nuest]

Same here, and no idea how to fix: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/nuest/suppdata/builds/21794271

[nuest]

Starting from https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/f421a17bd4fb559674a760667c088bdc5aa8093c/src/library/tools/R/check.R#L5550 I could deactivate the size check both in the build configuration on Appveyor or directly in appveyor.yml. Hope this helps others until problem is fixed:

nuest/suppdata@999c78e

[krlmlr]

@jeroen: Any idea why R CMD check would bring up Error: invalid version specification 'true (GNU coreutils) 5.97 when checking documentation sizes?

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/cdeterman/gpur#L641

[jeroen]

This error comes from R when you try to parse a string true as a version: https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/5a156a0865362bb8381dcd69ac335f5174a4f60c/src/library/base/R/version.R#L51

No idea what is causing this though.

[krlmlr]

Is this still a problem with R 3.6?

[cdeterman]

@krlmlr it still appears to be the case here