[BioC] warning if pdf of vignette is missing

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Tue Sep 20 15:54:44 CEST 2005


On 19 Sep 2005, hummel at ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
> When I build a zip file everything is normal except that no pdf is
> created.  When building a tar.gz file there is something strange:
>
> Z:\GlobalAncova>Rcmd build z:/GA_Subversion/GlobalAncova
> * checking for file 'z:/GA_Subversion/GlobalAncova/DESCRIPTION' ...
>   OK
> * preparing 'z:/GA_Subversion/GlobalAncova':
> * creating vignettes ... OK        
> * removing junk files
> * building 'GlobalAncova_1.2.tar.gz'
> tar: GlobalAncova/inst/doc/Rplots.ps: file changed as we read it
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

The first thing I would try is running R CMD build again on a clean
source dir.  Make sure all generated files are removed first.  

If this is 100% reproducible, then my guess would be that your Rnw
file is doing something funny with figures.  Do you have Rgraphviz
installed for Windows?

+ seth



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