[Rd] R CMD check and error in an \Sexpr in an Rd file

[Martin Maechler]

Hi Kasper,

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 16:55, Kasper Daniel Hansen
<kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Martin,
>
> I am pretty sure (but I will probably be proven wrong) that when
> r-announce was created it was stated that every email got sent to both
> r-help and r-devel,

Hmm, I don't believe you.  To the contrary, I'd even bet a bit on
that.   Always to R-help, but not to R-devel,...
If you have real proof please "present" it..
(but this *is* getting off-topic...  we should probably continue off-R-devel ..)

Martin

>
> and I see I have received emails from r-announce
> in the past despite only being subscribed to r-devel and not r-help.
> For example, I can find the announcement of R-2.13.0 (posted by P
> Dalgaard) (and many earlier versions), but not R-2.13.1.  While I am
> pretty sure I have only subscribed to r-help for a brief period many
> years ago, I did switch my r-devel subscription from one email address
> to another.
>
> I infer from your email that r-announce emails are no longer sent to
> r-devel subscribers (which is consistent with the text on
>  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce
> ).
>
> Kasper
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Martin Maechler
> <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> >
> >    > Thank you very much Duncan, Uwe and Peter.  Sorry if I
> >    > missed the announcement, I follow more r-devel than
> >    > r-help, which I find a bit hard to quickly read.
> >
> > But please --- this concerns every one on R-devel ---
> > if you do not subscribe to R-help,
> > then do subscribe to R-announce -- that one has about
> > one posting *per month* and is really only for important
> > announcements (and basically reserved for R-core to post).
> >
> > See a list of *all*  R-announce postings of  2011 :
> >
> >  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2011/date.html
> >
> > with the 2.14.0 announcement at the end.
> >
> > Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
> >
> >
> >    > Will try now on the 2.14.0.
> >
> >    > Renaud
> >
> >    > On 31/10/2011 14:28, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >    >> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:
> >    >>
> >    >>> I do not see it on main CRAN home page.
> >    >>
> >    >> No, but see the announcement on R-announce this morning:
> >    >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-October/294203.html
> >    >>
> >    >> Things which need human intervention can take some hours:
> >    >> the CRAN front page and binary distributions are two of
> >    >> those.
> >    >>
> >    >>> Do you mean
> >    >>> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-latest.tar.gz
> >    >>> ?
> >    >>>
> >    >>> On 31/10/2011 14:19, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> >    >>>>
> >    >>>>
> >    >>>> On 31.10.2011 13:13, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:
> >    >>>>> Thank you Duncan.
> >    >>>>>
> >    >>>>> I tried with: * using R version 2.14.0 RC (2011-10-24
> >    >>>>> r57417) * using platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >    >>>>> (64-bit)
> >    >>>>>
> >    >>>>> But I still get the errors for verbatim multiline and
> >    >>>>> the strange error if an error occurs in \Sexpr.  Is
> >    >>>>> your patch included in this version? I will try now
> >    >>>>> with R-rc_2011-10-27_r57452.tar.gz.
> >    >>>>
> >    >>>> Try R-2.14.0, it is already released. Or R-devel.
> >    >>>>
> >    >>>> Best, Uwe Ligges
> >    >>>>
> >    >>>>
> >    >>>>>
> >>>>> Renaud
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 28/10/2011 17:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> >>>>>> On 28/10/2011 10:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 28/10/2011 10:49 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:
> >>>>>>> > Hi,
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>> > another Rd related issue I encountered is that if an error occurs
> >>>>>>> in an
> >>>>>>> > \Sexpr in an Rd file, then on get the following error:
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>> > * checking for portable compilation flags in Makevars ... OK
> >>>>>>> > * checking for portable use of $(BLAS_LIBS) and $(LAPACK_LIBS)
> >>>>>>> ... OK
> >>>>>>> > * checking examples ... ERROR
> >>>>>>> > Error in paste(before, x, after, sep = "") : object 'exfile'
> >>>>>>> not found
> >>>>>>> > Execution halted
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>> > To reproduce, put a call like this in an Rd section:
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>> > \Sexpr[results=verbatim, stage=render]{x<- 1; stop("sexpr error")}
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>> > The strange thing is that it occurs at the example checking step.
> >>>>>>> > Not sure why it does not break before.
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>> > Thank you.
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>> > Renaud
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>> > PS: I am on R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30) - x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> >>>>>>> (64-bit)
> >>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I would update to 2.13.2 patched, or the release candidate of
> >>>>>>> 2.14.0.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Oops, sorry, 2.13.2 is "final", so I didn't backport the patch.
> >>>>>> 2.14.0
> >>>>>> is what you should get.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
> >>>>>
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