[Rd] make check-all fails (PR#8063)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Please do read the docs: this test is randomm and will fail about 1 in 50 
and if you have already run make check, you have already passed it.

Definitely no bug in R.

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 jed at jkaplan.info wrote:

> Full_Name: Jed Kaplan
> Version: 2.1.1 Patched
> OS: Fedora Core 4
> Submission from: (NULL) (66.31.221.212)
>
>
> Installation through "make check" succeeds. "Make check-all" fails with the
> following tail message:
> "
> make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/linuxApp/usr/local/R/R-patched/tests'
> running code in 'p-r-random-tests.R' ...make[3]: *** [p-r-random-tests.Rout]
> Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/linuxApp/usr/local/R/R-patched/tests'
> make[2]: *** [test-Random] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/linuxApp/usr/local/R/R-patched/tests'
> make[1]: *** [test-all-devel] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/linuxApp/usr/local/R/R-patched/tests'
> make: *** [check-all] Error 2
> "
>
> The tail of ./tests/p-r-random-tests.Rout.fail is:
> "
>> dkwtest("nbinom",size =   1,prob = 0.8)
> nbinom(size = 1, prob = 0.8) PASSED
> [1] TRUE
>> dkwtest("nbinom",size = 100,prob = 0.8)
> nbinom(size = 100, prob = 0.8) PASSED
> [1] TRUE
>> dkwtest("nbinom",size = 100,prob = 0.999)
> nbinom(size = 100, prob = 0.999) PASSED
> [1] TRUE
>>
>> dkwtest("norm")
> norm() FAILED
> Error in dkwtest("norm") : dkwtest failed
> Execution halted
> "
>
> Here is some system configuration output from "./configure" :
> "
> R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
>  Source directory:          .
>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
>  C compiler:                gcc  -g -O2
>  C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>  Fortran compiler:          f95  -g -O2
>
>  Interfaces supported:      X11
>  External libraries:        readline
>  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
>  Options enabled:           R profiling
>
>  Recommended packages:      yes
> "
>
> Please advise.
>
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