Other poor package author run into the same problem. I don’t know if this isĭifference between Debian and Ubuntu. Is en_US.iso885915, which I also tried and failed. That is, I spent a few hours and finally figured out that I needed ISO-8859 It took me quite a few hours toįigure out how to set up the locale correctly: sudo locale-gen en_US.ISO-8859-15 Started a Ubuntu machine with the Github action. MacOS, but it must be because I was not using the devel version of R. An example of debugging with the ISO-8859-15 localeĪ recent problem I tried to debug was that a reverse dependency of knitrįailed to pass R CMD check on CRAN’s Debian machine. You don’t have to create a separate repo like I did above. Note that you can use the tmate action inside any of your existing GithubĪctions. In my packages are mostly likely to arise in the devel version of R. Version because I don’t want to install it on my own computer, and CRAN problems Most of the time I use the devel (i.e., development) Version to devel, release, and oldrel-1, etc., so you can debug withĭifferent versions of R. The config to ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, or macOS-latest, depending

That you will be able to ssh into the Github action’s virtual machine (orĬlick the link to the web shell) to debug R problems. That first installs R, Pandoc, and TinyTeX, and then uses the tmate action, so I have created an example repo yihui/tmate-r Of course, you can debug R problems, too. Problems on any platform that Github Actions support, including Windows, macOS,Īnd Ubuntu. One or two years ago, I found the Github action My computer when I start up the virtual machine. Sure if I should blame it on VMware or Windows, but this definitely slows down I haveġ6Gb memory in total and must give VMware at least 10Gb to run Windows. I noticed that Windows on VMware required more and more memory. VirtualBox and VMware to install different operating systems and run them on my Over the years, I have been using tools like

Using Github Actions as Free Virtual Machines to Debug R Problems on Different PlatformsĪs a developer, my work machine is a Macbook, but I often need to debug R Using Github Actions as Free Virtual Machines to Debug R Problems on Different Platforms - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉

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