[Rd] Build error with last R-devel tarball

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, hpages at fhcrc.org wrote:

> Quoting Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>
>> This was fixed in SVN within a few hours.  Tarballs are snapshots, please
>> check SVN before reporting problems.
>
> Thanks! I will check SVN before reporting problems with a tarball.
> Just hope that nobody will get too upset if I'm reporting a problem
> that just got fixed during the time I did 'svn up' and 'Send Message'
> though ;-)
>
>>
>> As I have said several times, please do not expect R-devel to build on all
>> platforms at all times.
>
> Of course. But please, let us know if reporting problems when they occur
> is still the right thing to do or not.

It's often a good idea to check 24-48 hours later and then report.
Autobuilders are running on about that frequency.

>
> Thanks,
> H.
>
>>
>> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, hpages at fhcrc.org wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> On Windows, with last R-devel tarball (r40647) from
>>>  ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/R-devel_2007-02-04.tar.gz
>>> I get the following build error:
>>>
>>> E:\biocbld\bbs-2.0-bioc\R\src\gnuwin32> make
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> ---------- Making package utils ------------
>>>  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>>>  installing NAMESPACE file and metadata
>>>  installing R files
>>> Error in namespaceExport(ns, exports) : undefined exports :?,
>> CRAN.packages,
>>> Rprof, Rprofmem, RShowDo
>>> c, RSiteSearch, URLdecode, URLencode, alarm, apropos, argsAnywhere,
>>> assignInNamespace, as.roman, as.p
>>> erson, as.personList, available.packages, browseEnv, browseURL,
>> bug.report,
>>> capture.output, checkCRAN
>>> , chooseCRANmirror, citation, citEntry, citHeader, citFooter,
>> close.socket,
>>> combn, compareVersion, co
>>> ntrib.url, count.fields, data, data.entry, dataentry, de, de.ncols,
>> de.restore,
>>> de.setup, debugger, d
>>> emo, download.file, download.packages, dump.frames, edit, emacs, example,
>>> file_test, file.edit, find,
>>> fix, fixInNamespace, flush.console, formatOL, formatUL, getAnywhere,
>>> getFromNamespace, getS3method,
>>> glob2rx, head, head.matrix, help, help.search, help.start, history,
>>> index.search, install.packages, i
>>> nstalled.packages, limitedLabels, loadhistory, localeToCharset, ls.str,
>> lsf.str,
>>> make.packages.html,
>>> make.socket, memory.limit, memory.size, menu, methods, mirror2html,
>> modifyList,
>>> new.packag
>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>> S3 methods '[.getAnywhere', '[.roman', 'as.character.person',
>>> 'as.character.personList', 'as.characte
>>> r.roman', 'as.person.default', 'as.personList.default',
>> 'as.personList.person',
>>> 'edit.data.frame', 'e
>>> dit.default', 'edit.matrix', 'edit.vignette', 'format.roman',
>> 'head.data.frame',
>>> 'head.default', 'hea
>>> d.function', 'head.matrix', 'head.ftable', 'head.table', 'print.citation',
>>> 'print.Bibtex', 'print.cit
>>> ationList', 'print.getAnywhere', 'print.hsearch',
>> 'print.help_files_with_topic',
>>> 'print.Latex', 'prin
>>> t.ls_str', 'print.MethodsFunction', 'print.packageDescription',
>>> 'print.packageIQR', 'print.packageSta
>>> tus', 'print.roman', 'print.sessionInfo', 'print.socket',
>> 'print.vignette',
>>> 'prompt.data.frame', 'pro
>>> mpt.default', 'stack.data.frame', 'stack.default', 'str.POSIXt',
>>> 'str.data.frame', 'str.default', 'su
>>> mmary.packageStatus', 'tail.data.frame', 'tail.default', 'tail.function',
>>> 'tail.matrix', 'tail.ftable
>>> ', 'tail.table', 'toBibtex.citation', 'toBibtex.citationList',
>>> 'toBibtex.person', 'toBibtex [... trun
>>> cated]
>>> Execution halted
>>> make[4]: *** [E:/biocbld/bbs-2.0-bioc/R/library/utils/R/utils] Error 1
>>> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
>>> make[2]: *** [pkg-utils] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [rpackage] Error 1
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> H.
>>>
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>>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>>
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-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595