[Rd] R 3.2.4 rc issue

[peter dalgaard]

Thanks for the info, Dirk.

The tarball builds don't run make check (because of a policy decision that it is better to have the sources available on all platforms for testing than to have none if it breaks on a single platform). However the build as of tonight has no problem with make check on the build machine. Did you by any chance forget that Matrix is a recommended package and expected to be available when checking?

-pd

> On 04 Mar 2016, at 04:52 , Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I generally run 'make; make check' (with more settings) when building the
> Debian package.  Running 3.2.4 rc from last night, I see a lot of package
> loading issues during 'make check'.  Here is splines as one examples:
> 
> checking package 'splines'
> * using log directory '/build/r-base-3.2.3.20160303/tests/splines.Rcheck'
> * using R version 3.2.4 RC (2016-03-02 r70270)
> * using platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> * using session charset: ASCII
> * using option '--no-build-vignettes'
> * looks like 'splines' is a base package
> * skipping installation test
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking top-level files ... OK
> * checking for left-over files ... OK
> * checking index information ... OK
> * checking package subdirectories ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
> * checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
> * checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
> * checking replacement functions ... OK
> * checking foreign function calls ... OK
> * checking R code for possible problems ... OK
> * checking Rd files ... OK
> * checking Rd metadata ... OK
> * checking Rd cross-references ... WARNING
> Unknown package 'Matrix' in Rd xrefs
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
> * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
> * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
> * checking Rd contents ... OK
> * checking compiled code ... OK
> * checking examples ... SKIPPED
> * checking tests ...
>  Running 'spline-tst.R'
> ERROR
> Running the tests in 'tests/spline-tst.R' failed.
> Last 13 lines of output:
>> proc.time()
>     user  system elapsed 
>    2.272   0.020   2.291 
>> 
>> ###----------------- sparse / dense   interpSpline() ---------------------------
>> 
>> ## from  help(interpSpline) -- ../man/interpSpline.Rd
>> ispl <- interpSpline( women$height, women$weight)
>> isp. <- interpSpline( women$height, women$weight, sparse=TRUE)
>  Error in splineDesign(knots, x, ord, derivs, sparse = sparse) : 
>    splineDesign(*, sparse=TRUE) needs package 'Matrix' correctly installed
>  Calls: interpSpline -> interpSpline.default -> splineDesign
>  Execution halted
> * checking PDF version of manual ... OK
> * DONE
> 
> Status: 1 ERROR, 1 WARNING
> See
>  '/build/r-base-3.2.3.20160303/tests/splines.Rcheck/00check.log'
> for details.
> 
> 
> Did something change in requirements?
> 
> Dirk
> 
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