[Rd] make error in R devel

[Prof Brian Ripley]

What you are doing is not building the recommended packages.  We not 
guarantee that the examples will work if you do not.  (I was aware this 
would happen but have not yet put in a workaround.)

*WHY* are you not building the recommended packages?

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Gavin Simpson wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I just hit an error that stopped my make && make check-devel operation on my 
> linux box (FC3, i686 P4 2GB RAM). Just to note that I've been building the 
> development branch(?) for some time and this is the first hint of a problem.
>
> 1) updated the src tree using svn update
> 2) ran ../configure --with-recommended-package=no from my build directory
> 3) got:
> R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
>  Source directory:          ../src
>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
>  C compiler:                gcc  -O3 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
>  C++ compiler:              g++  -O3 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
>  Fortran compiler:          g77  -O3 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
>
>  Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
>  External libraries:        readline, BLAS(generic)
>  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
>  Options enabled:           R profiling
>
>  Recommended packages:      no
>
> Note I've editted config.site to compile with optimisations -O3
> 4) did make && make check-devel and get this:
> ...
> make[5]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/src/library'
> >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'graphics'
>     Formats: text html latex example
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/src/library'
> running code in 'graphics-Ex.R' ... OK
> collecting examples for package 'stats' ...
> make[5]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/src/library'
> >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'stats'
>     Formats: text html latex example
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/src/library'
> running code in 'stats-Ex.R' ...make[4]: *** [stats-Ex.Rout] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/tests/Examples'
> make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/tests/Examples'
> make[2]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/tests'
> make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/tests'
> make: *** [check-devel] Error 2
>
> 5) Looking at stats-Ex.Rout.fail I see this at the end:
>>
>> ### Name: confint
>> ### Title: Confidence Intervals for Model Parameters
>> ### Aliases: confint confint.default
>> ### Keywords: models
>>
>> ### ** Examples
>>
>> fit <- lm(100/mpg ~ disp + hp + wt + am, data=mtcars)
>> confint(fit)
>                   2.5 %      97.5 %
> (Intercept) -0.774822875 2.256118188
> disp        -0.002867999 0.008273849
> hp          -0.001400580 0.011949674
> wt           0.380088737 1.622517536
> am          -0.614677730 0.926307310
>> confint(fit, "wt")
>       2.5 %   97.5 %
> wt 0.3800887 1.622518
>>
>> ## from example(glm)
>> counts <- c(18,17,15,20,10,20,25,13,12)
>> outcome <- gl(3,1,9); treatment <- gl(3,3)
>> glm.D93 <- glm(counts ~ outcome + treatment, family=poisson())
>> confint(glm.D93)
> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'MASS'
> Execution halted
>
> But as there are no recommended packages this fails as indicated. So is there 
> something wrong with what I'm doing (i.e. something recent in the last week 
> has changed that I missed in NEWS) or is this a bug in the tests or examples?
>
> Cheers
>
> Gav
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