From bbo|ker @end|ng |rom gm@||@com  Tue Mar  3 22:15:42 2020
From: bbo|ker @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Ben Bolker)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 16:15:42 -0500
Subject: [Rd] survival bug?
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  Microsoft offers fully-provisioned but time-limited developer images
for Windows 10 (I think they last for 3 months) for most major VM
platforms (including VirtualBox, which is the one I currently use).
There would certainly be a start-up cost in effort, but probably not any
financial cost.

   cheers
    Ben Bolker

On 2020-03-03 4:02 p.m., Gabriel Becker wrote:
> Hi Terry,
> 
> http://win-builder.r-project.org/ and the rhub build service (which can be
> invoked by the rhub package) allow on demand checks in windows
> environments, though for active debugging the iteration time can be quite
> painful.
> 
> If you have access, e.g., through your employer, to a windows license you
> should also be able to do use VMWare or VirtualBox (I can never remember
> which one I like more) to run windows and test that way. This will have
> some start up cost in effort but allows active testing and iteration.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> ~G
> 
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 7:00 AM Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel <
> r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
>> My latest submission of survival3.1-10 to CRAN fails  a check, but only on
>> windows, which
>> I don't use.
>> How do I track this down?
>> The test in question works fine on my Linux box.
>>
>> Terry
>>
>>
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[Rd] survival bug?
Ben Bolker