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make check failures (PR#2884)

3 messages · Ross Boylan, Peter Dalgaard, Douglas Bates

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R Version 1.7.0 Patched (2003-04-28), built on Solaris 2.8
with gcc 3.0.3.
Obtained via rsync -rC rsync.r-project.org::r-patched R

I'm not sure how signficant these difference are during development,
but after an apparently successful build I got the following
discrepancies in make check:

make[3]: Entering directory `/export/home/ross/src/R/tests'
running code in 'reg-tests-1.R' ... OK
running code in 'reg-tests-2.R' ... OK
comparing 'reg-tests-2.Rout' to './reg-tests-2.Rout.save' ...2259,2260c2259,2276
< Warning message: 
< There is no package called 'MASS' in: library(package, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts,  
---
2291,2292c2307,2311
< Warning message: 
< There is no package called 'survival' in: library(package, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts,  
---
OK
running code in 'reg-IO.R' ... OK


Note that configure reported
checking for recommended packages... ./src/library/Recommended/survival_*.tar.gz not found

I don't know what the deal is with the survival library.
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ross@biostat.ucsf.edu writes:
You need to get the set of recommended packages. Run
tools/rsync-recommended in your source directroy and rebuild.

The discrepances are warnings (and only warnings) about the absense of
packages and are quite expectable if you didn't install them...
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ross@biostat.ucsf.edu writes:
R-patched is just the R sources.  After you have obtained a copy of
those sources via rsync, cd to the top-level source directory and run

./tools/rsync-recommended

This arrangement allows the authors of recommended packages to update
their packages on their own schedules, not necessarily on the schedule
for the R sources.