[Rd] make check fails with 1.7.0beta

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> Dear R-devel:
> 
> This might have been discussed, but I've deleted all the messages,
> unfortunately.
> 
> I downloaded the 1.7.0beta 03/26/2003.  The compile was fine, but make check
> failed while checking "base".  base-Ex.Rout.fail has the following:
> 
> > ## find the 10 largest objects in base
> > z <- sapply(ls("package:base"), function(x) object.size(get(x)))
> Error in get(x) : F used instead of FALSE
> Execution halted
> 
> This is on Mandrake 9.0 running on PIII Xeon.  Same thing happened with GCC
> and the Intel compilers.
> 
> Can anyone help?

There was a late change to massage-Examples.pl that broke this for
everyone (and was probably not spotted as the *-Ex.R files were not 
remade automatically).  Hopefully we will have a working version for the 
next beta: I am just doing a build from scratch to test this out.

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