[Rd] R CMD check on Win fails to detect failed installations (PR#6790)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

I think you had to be using an install log to get that message.

It is true that R_system($cmd) is not returning an error code, and I've 
fixed that.


On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de wrote:

> I just post it not to forget - will try to contribute a fix.
> 
> Example: CDNmoney_2003.9-2.tar.gz (in the archives section of CRAN)
> [There is another problem here I'll address separately.]
> 
> If running solely,
>    R CMD check CDNmoney
> fails to detect a failed installation on Windows. Instead, it reports:
> * checking whether package 'CDNmoney' can be installed ... OK
> 
> Of course, the check fails later, but with some meaningless error messages.
> 
> 
> The repository maintainer's approach works (i.e. detects the problem):
> 
>    R INSTALL CDNmoney > install.log 2>&1
>    R CMD check --install="check:install.log" CDNmoney
> 
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> --please do not edit the information below--
> 
> Version:
>   platform = i386-pc-mingw32
>   arch = i386
>   os = mingw32
>   system = i386, mingw32
>   status =
>   major = 1
>   minor = 9.0
>   year = 2004
>   month = 04
>   day = 12
>   language = R
> 
> Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6
> 
> Search Path:
>   .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, 
> package:utils, Autoloads, package:base
> 
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