Message-ID: <18819.54749.999186.155947@ron.nulle.part>
Date: 2009-01-31T04:38:53Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: Side-effects of require() vs library() on x86_64 aka amd64
In-Reply-To: <18817.12266.512527.675087@ron.nulle.part>
On 28 January 2009 at 22:26, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| RDieHarder fails its regression tests on x86_64 (aka "amd64") at CRAN (using
| Debian), and I see the same on Ubuntu 8.10 in 64 bit. No issues on 32bit.
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| One odd thing is that the program behaves well if run via
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| R --no-save < tests/RDieHarder.R
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| but NOT when started using
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| R --slave < tests/RDieHarder.R
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| as R CMD check does.
Turns out, as so often, that there was a regular bug lurking which is now
fixed in RDieHarder 0.1.1. But I still would like to understand exactly what
is different so that --slave was able to trigger it when --vanilla,
--no-save, ... did not.
[ The library() vs require() issue may have been a red herring. ]
Dirk
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