[Rd] R 2.12.0 alpha/beta/rc warning: spurious or not?

Martin Morgan mtmorgan at fhcrc.org
Sat Oct 9 00:11:14 CEST 2010


On 10/08/2010 01:25 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> With several versions of R 2.12.0 I have been seeing this when running
> 
>   R CMD build Rcpp
> 
> from the SVN sources:
> 
>   [...]
>   Transcript written on Rd2.log.
>   Saving output to '/home/edd/svn/rcpp/pkg/Rcpp/build/Rcpp.pdf' ...
>   Warning in file.create(to[okay]) :
>     cannot create file '/home/edd/svn/rcpp/pkg/Rcpp/build/Rcpp.pdf', reson 'No such file or directory'
>   Done
>   [...]
> 
> which looks like a simple case of a missing 'mkdir build'.  Or is there
> something else at work I am overlooking?   NEWS has no hint about this as far
> as I can tell.
> 
> Also, the error disappears when I create a directory build/ inside of my
> package sources.
> 
> It is still present with the RC tarball wrapped up last night (r53227).

Similar to this

  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-September/058399.html

I think.

Martin
> 
> Dirk
> 


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