[Rd] R 2.12.0 alpha/beta/rc warning: spurious or not?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 8 October 2010 at 15:11, Martin Morgan wrote:
| On 10/08/2010 01:25 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > 
| > With several versions of R 2.12.0 I have been seeing this when running
| > 
| >   R CMD build Rcpp
| > 
| > from the SVN sources:
| > 
| >   [...]
| >   Transcript written on Rd2.log.
| >   Saving output to '/home/edd/svn/rcpp/pkg/Rcpp/build/Rcpp.pdf' ...
| >   Warning in file.create(to[okay]) :
| >     cannot create file '/home/edd/svn/rcpp/pkg/Rcpp/build/Rcpp.pdf', reson 'No such file or directory'
| >   Done
| >   [...]
| > 
| > which looks like a simple case of a missing 'mkdir build'.  Or is there
| > something else at work I am overlooking?   NEWS has no hint about this as far
| > as I can tell.
| > 
| > Also, the error disappears when I create a directory build/ inside of my
| > package sources.
| > 
| > It is still present with the RC tarball wrapped up last night (r53227).
| 
| Similar to this
| 
|   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-September/058399.html
| 
| I think.

Seems so. Did anybody ever get back to you?  

Maybe build/ is now an undocumented requirement....

Dirk

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