[R] building r-patch

[Vadim Ogranovich]

Thank you for Dirk Eddelbuettel and Prof. Ripley for pointing out to
tools/rsync-recommended. Maybe it is wort mentioning in the R
Administration guide and in the INSTALL file?

Thanks,
Vadim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:10 PM
> To: vograno at yahoo.com
> Cc: R-Help
> Subject: Re: [R] building r-patch
> 
> 
> The first is more or less what you should expect.
> 
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >  
> > I am building r-patch from the sources (rsync-ed today).
> >  
> > make check produced the following message:
> >  
> > running tests of Internet and socket functions
> >   expect some differences
> > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/evahome/vograno/R/tests' running 
> > code in 'internet.R' ... OK comparing 'internet.Rout' to 
> > './internet.Rout.save' ...18c18 < Content type `text/plain; 
> > charset=iso-8859-1' length 134991 bytes
> > ---
> > > Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 124178 bytes
> > 22,23c22,23
> > < .......... .......... .......... .
> > < downloaded 131Kb
> > ---
> > > .......... .......... .
> > > downloaded 121Kb
> > 25c25
> > < [1] 273
> > ---
> > > [1] 251
> > 60,61d59
> > < Error in url(" <http://foo.bar> http://foo.bar", "r") : unable to 
> > open connection < In addition: Warning message:
> > 62a61
> > > Error in url(" <http://foo.bar> http://foo.bar", "r") : unable to 
> > > open
> > connection
> > 365,370c364
> > <  Login: root              Name: root
> > < Directory: /root                     Shell: /bin/tcsh
> > < Last login Wed Nov  5 13:34 (PST) on pts/1 from 
> > verdi.irisfinancial.com < New mail received Wed Nov  5 04:02 2003 
> > (PST)
> > <      Unread since Fri Oct 24 04:02 2003 (PDT )
> > < No Plan.
> > ---
> > > Error in make.socket(host, port) : Socket not established
> >  OK
> >     
> >  
> >  
> > I noticed that I had to expect some differences so my 
> question is how 
> > to tell whether it's harmless or not?
> >  
> >  
> > Other questions are related to building of recommended packages:
> > * The src/library/Recommended directory was empty. Is it expected?
> 
> No.  You forgot to run tools/rsync-recommended in the sources.
> 
> > If
> > yes, how to download the entire bundle of recommended 
> packages (I know 
> > I can get them one by one)? Is install.packaes() the 
> recommended way?
> > * make check tried to test MASS and survival (and failed 
> because the 
> > packages were not there), but it didn't try to test the other 
> > recommended  packages. Why only these two?
> 
> It did not test those packages, it tried to make use of them. 
>  make check-all would have tested the recommended packages.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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