[Rd] Problem with creating default NAMESPACE on FreeBSD

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It does not seem to happen to anyone else, including me on FreeBSD. 
Is this a completely clean install?  src/library/datasets/Makefile 
definitely installs a NAMESPACE file as part of the mkR1 target, so I 
would check that you have a src/library/datasets/NAMESPACE file in 
your sources.

(There was a short window on the 16th when it happened as a commit for 
src/library/datasets/NAMESPACE was missed at first.)


On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Rainer Hurling wrote:

> After building and installing R-devel from 21/07/2011 on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT 
> (amd64), starting R gives the following warning:
>
> [..snip..]
> Beim Start - Warnmeldung:
> package 'datasets' in options("defaultPackages") was not found
>
> This happens with all versions after 14/07/2011. I think it is related to
>
> NEWS Sat, 16 Jul 2011
> CHANGES IN R-devel PACKAGE INSTALLATION
> Packages without explicit ‘NAMESPACE’ files will have a default one created 
> at build or INSTALL time, so all packages will have namespaces. A consequence 
> of this is that ‘.First.lib’ functions need to be renamed, usually as 
> ‘.onLoad’ but sometimes as ‘.onAttach’.
>
>
> Package 'datasets' seems to be installed correctly under 
> /usr/local/lib/R/library/:
>
> ls -l datasets/
> total 18
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  -  289 22 Jul 08:12:04 2011 DESCRIPTION
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 5547 22 Jul 08:12:04 2011 INDEX
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  -  512 22 Jul 08:12:04 2011 Meta
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  -  512 22 Jul 08:12:04 2011 R
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  -  512 22 Jul 08:12:04 2011 data
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  -  512 22 Jul 08:12:04 2011 help
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  -  512 22 Jul 08:12:04 2011 html
>
>
> Calling options("defaultPackages") shows all relevant packages:
>
> $defaultPackages
> [1] "datasets"  "utils"     "grDevices" "graphics"  "stats"     "methods"
>
>
> But trying to load library 'datasets' fails with the following message:
>
> library(datasets)
> Fehler in library(datasets) :
>  package 'datasets' does not have a NAMESPACE and should be re-installed
>
>
> Googling around for some days now it looks like this does not happen to 
> anyone else (at least there are no infos). Does anybody knows what is going 
> on here?
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
> Rainer Hurling
>
>
>
> sessionInfo()
> R Under development (unstable) (2011-07-21 r56467)
> Platform: amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] 
> de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15/C/de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     methods   base
>
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