[Rd] check does not accept --vsize option (PR#481)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On 13 Mar 2000, Douglas Bates wrote:

> neteler@geog.uni-hannover.de writes:
> 
> > I wanted to "check" the R.GRASS GIS interface from Roger Bivand:
> > http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/statsgrasslist.html
> > 
> > using
> > R CMD check --vsize=10M GRASS
> > 
> > but:
> > 
> > [error message shortened]
> > > G <- gmeta()
> > Error: heap memory (6144 Kb) exhausted [needed 1024 Kb more]
> >        See "help(Memory)" on how to increase the heap size.
> > Execution halted
> > 
> > It seems that --vsize is ignored. I check R/bin/check, the
> > parameter is sent properly to R but ignored there. From the
> > buglist I have seen that this problem occured with --nsize, too.

What version of R were you using?  That bug report was from 0.99.0,
I think.

> An R CMD check is designed to run in a protected environment, which is
> the reason that some command line switches are ignored.  A workaround
> is to specify the size as a shell or environment variable.  That is, use
>  R_VSIZE=10M R CMD check GRASS
> from a Bourne shell (or equivalent).  From the C-shell you may need to
> use
>  setenv R_VSIZE 10M
>  R CMD check GRASS

I think CMD check _is_ now supposed to accept --vsize and --nsize:

auk%  R CMD check --help
Usage: R CMD check [options] pkgs
...
  --vsize=N             set R's vector heap size to N bytes
  --nsize=N             set R's number of cons cells to N


However, it seems not to work correctly

ARGUMENT '{R_opts}' __ignored__

appears in *.Rout on Solaris, and only one of them is accepted.

In the check script we need

    --nsize=*)
      R_opts="${R_opts} ${1}" ;;
    --vsize=*)
      R_opts="${R_opts} ${1}" ;;

adding a couple of `$'.


On (t)csh I use something like.

env R_VSIZE=10M R CMD check GRASS


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