From @|mon@urb@nek @end|ng |rom R-project@org  Tue Mar  3 22:48:10 2020
From: @|mon@urb@nek @end|ng |rom R-project@org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 10:48:10 +1300
Subject: [Rd] survival bug?
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FWIW Microsoft provides evaluation version of Windows that can be easily installed using VirtualBox and runs for 180 days. One that I believe is the closest to the CRAN setup (Windows 2008) is:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=11093

You just tell VB to setup a Windows 2008 VM then, select the downloaded ISO as CD-ROM drive and install from it. The installation is fairly easy and then you only have to download Rtools.exe and R from CRAN. I recommend picking a custom location for R that is painless to type, e.g C:\R. To make iteration easier, I also use a shared mount from my machine (e.g. ~/packages -> E:) so I can edit and build the package on my Mac and then just run c:\R\bin\R CMD INSTALL mypackage_0.1-0.tar.gz  in the Windows VM is the same directory (you need to install Guest Additions [see the VB menu] to enable shared directories - alternatively you can also just use SMB shares if you want).

Cheers,
Simon



> On 4/03/2020, at 10:02 AM, Gabriel Becker <gabembecker at gmail.com> 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?
Simon Urbanek