Add Fedora 40 / GCC 14.2.1 platform

[donyunardi]

We found out today that CRAN is using Fedora 40 / GCC 14.2.1 for their CRAN check:
https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc/teal-00check.html

using R Under development (unstable) (2025-02-23 r87799)
using platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
R was compiled by
    gcc (GCC) 14.2.1 20240912 (Red Hat 14.2.1-3)
    GNU Fortran (GCC) 14.2.1 20240912 (Red Hat 14.2.1-3)
running under: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)

Any chance this can be added as a new platform for r-hub?

[gaborcsardi]

What's wrong with the existing one?

[donyunardi]

I think that there's a different behavior with this platform.

When we submitted our package, we were told that there's a NOTE about non-standard files/directories:

checking for non-standard things in the check directory ... NOTE
Found the following files/directories:
  ‘.renv’ ‘BiocManager’

I couldn't replicate the error locally and I didn't see any NOTE in any if our r-hub workflow.
However, you will see this NOTE in the link that I provided earlier.

Here's one example where we use the r-hub gcc13 platform that's using Fedora 38 / GCC 13.2.1 and shows no NOTE: https://github.com/insightsengineering/teal/actions/runs/13479415105/job/37662762934

[gaborcsardi]

Surely, that has nothing to with the compiler or the Linux distro, but it is more about your test cleanup not working correctly:
https://github.com/cran/teal/blob/d61bcf61bd84cd000e9fba41652e03490633c935/tests/testthat.R#L4-L5

E.g. unlink() will not delete a directory, unless you use recursive = TRUE.

[donyunardi]

Thanks for the tips, we'll give that a try.

Regardless, I think it would be nice to use the same platform that CRAN is using, so I'm checking if this is something r-hub would be interested in doing.

[gaborcsardi]

Sure, a PR is welcome.