R Mac users,
I have a couple of Mac-specific curiosities regarding package installation that I thought I'd ask the group.
First, when installing packages on my Mac (and not elsewhere), I see a bunch of lines saying "Note: no visible binding for global variable 'xyz'" (and the like). A Google search on this phrase seemed to indicate that these notes can appear if one sets the _R_CHECK_USE_CODETOOLS_ variable. As I have not done this (and in fact have tried explicitly setting this variable to FALSE), I'm wondering if anyone knows why I get these extra notes on my Mac only.
Second, a note that scrolls by for one package installation that I find particularly unusual is the following:
Note: possible error in 'updateIds(doc, save = x)':
Unused argument(s) (save = x)
I've managed to whittle down my package into a single method declaration in the R directory that produces this note.
setMethod("Ops", signature("x", "x"), function(e1, e2) {})
However, there is no 'updateIds' function, and I can't seem to find that function anywhere in the R code base (or mine). Does anyone know what this means, and why I get it? Again, I can't seem to reproduce this on my Linux installation, only Mac.
Thanks!
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platform x86_64-apple-darwin10.7.0
arch x86_64
os darwin10.7.0
system x86_64, darwin10.7.0
status
major 2
minor 13.0
year 2011
month 04
day 13
svn rev 55427
language R
version.string R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
## Here's how I build R, in case that matters.
$BUILDDIR/R-$RVERS/configure r_arch=x86_64 \
--prefix="$PREFIX/R/R-${RVERS}" \
--build=$BUILD \
--with-x --with-aqua=yes --enable-R-framework=no \
--with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack \
--x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --x-includes=/usr/X11/include && \
make bytecode && \
make install && \
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