[Rd] R 2.10.0 devel package check error

[John Fox]

Dear Brian,

Because this problem surfaced only with the Rcmdr package, and other
packages checked without error, I thought that the problem was in the
package. Also R CMD INSTALL Rcmdr built the chm help pages correctly, as far
as I can see.

Anyway, I'll try again in a few days.

Thank you for the information (and the admonishment).

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: August-27-09 11:53 AM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] R 2.10.0 devel package check error
> 
> AFAICS that is already fixed (r49467).
> 
> It was a Windows-only problem when building just chm help - I suspect
> the latter did not work in your package.
> 
> I should perhaps remind people that R-devel is 'unstable' and as we
> work on the help system it is likely to be particularly unstable on
> Windows (since there are features such as this one that are only
> exercised there).
> 
> Reports on R-devel are welcome, but most useful if they are about
> things that have persisted for a few days.
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, John Fox wrote:
> 
> > Dear list members,
> >
> > I'm getting the following error from R CMD check under Windows only with
R
> > 2.10.0 devel:
> >
> > ------------- snip -----------
> >
> > * installing *source* package 'Rcmdr' ...
> > ** libs
> >  making DLL ...
> > gcc -I"c:/R/R-2.10.0dev/include"        -O3 -Wall  -std=gnu99 -c ismdi.c
-o
> > ismdi.o
> > gcc -shared -s -o Rcmdr.dll tmp.def ismdi.o -lRgraphapp
> > -Lc:/R/R-2.10.0dev/bin -lR
> >  ... done
> > ** R
> > ** inst
> > ** help
> > *** installing help indices
> > Error in cat("\n<h2><a name=\"", f, "\">-- ", f, " --</a></h2>\n\n", sep
=
> > "",  :
> >  object 'outcon' not found
> > * removing 'C:/eclipse/Rcmdr.Rcheck/Rcmdr'
> >
> > ------------- snip -----------
> >
> > The package does in fact install properly on this system, including the
> help
> > files, and I've been unable to track down the source of the problem.
> >
> > Version and system information:
> >
> > ------------- snip -----------
> >
> > Version:
> > platform = i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch = i386
> > os = mingw32
> > system = i386, mingw32
> > status = Under development (unstable)
> > major = 2
> > minor = 10.0
> > year = 2009
> > month = 08
> > day = 26
> > svn rev = 49443
> > language = R
> > version.string = R version 2.10.0 Under development (unstable)
(2009-08-26
> > r49443)
> >
> > Windows Vista (build 6002) Service Pack 2
> >
> > Locale:
> >
>
LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252;LC_MONETARY=Engl
> > ish_Canada.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
> >
> > Search Path:
> > .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices,
> > package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads,
package:base
> >
> > ------------- snip -----------
> >
> > The offending package, Rcmdr 2.5-0, is available on R-Forge.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > John Fox, Professor
> > Department of Sociology
> > McMaster University
> > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> > web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> >
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