[Rd] R 2.3.1 release candidates starting tomorrow

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 27 May 2006, Andrew Robinson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> it builds just fine, but I get a warning on FreeBSD 6.1

That is a warning in a contributed package. It stems from

date.POSIXdate.R:as.data.frame.difftime <-as.data.frame.vector

and as.data.frame.vector differs by R version.  So it's just unfortunate
that a contributed package is in effect documenting a function in base.

Nothing worth attending to,

>
> less /usr/local/testing/R-beta/tests/survival.Rcheck/00check.log
> * using log directory
> '/usr/local/testing/R-beta/tests/survival.Rcheck'
> * using Version 2.3.1 beta (2006-05-25 r38197)
> * checking for file 'survival/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * this is package 'survival' version '2.26'
> * checking package dependencies ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> * skipping installation test
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking for portable file names ... OK
> * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking top-level files ... OK
> * checking index information ... OK
> * checking package subdirectories ... OK
> * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
> * checking R files for library.dynam ... OK
> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
> * checking replacement functions ... OK
> * checking foreign function calls ... OK
> * checking Rd files ... OK
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
> * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... WARNING
> Codoc mismatches from documentation object 'survival-internal':
> as.data.frame.difftime
>  Code: function(x, row.names = NULL, optional = FALSE)
>  Docs: function(x, row.names = NULL, optional = FALSE, ...)
>
> * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
> * checking for CRLF line endings in C/C++/Fortran sources/headers
> * ... OK
> * creating survival-Ex.R ... OK
> * checking examples ... OK
> * creating survival-manual.tex ... OK
> * checking survival-manual.tex ... OK
>
>
> This is:
>
>> version
>               _
> platform       i386-unknown-freebsd6.1
> arch           i386
> os             freebsd6.1
> system         i386, freebsd6.1
> status         beta
> major          2
> minor          3.1
> year           2006
> month          05
> day            25
> svn rev        38197
> language       R
> version.string Version 2.3.1 beta (2006-05-25 r38197)
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:47:22PM +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>>
>> Starting with tomorrow's build, the beta designation will be replaced
>> by RC. This also implies that we are in "hard" code freeze, and that
>> we're not going to change anything unless it is critical. If you do
>> not want such critical bugs to slip into the final release, please
>> check the release candidates on your platform and report back if you
>> find problems.
>>
>> The directory for prereleases is
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/
>>
>> --
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