[Rd] NAMESPACE file generation issue R 2.14.0 on Debian Squeeze

[Gabor Grothendieck]

2011/11/8 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
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>
> On 08.11.2011 17:56, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
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>> 2011/11/8 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
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>>> On 08.11.2011 17:04, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
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>>>> 2011/11/8 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 08.11.2011 16:31, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2011/11/8 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think many people like to help, but we cannot:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You say you are under R-2.14.0 and whn you R CMD INSTALL a package
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> version of R, it does not have a NAMESPACE in the end?
>>>>>>> Then
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  - your R installation is broken or
>>>>>>>  - you are looking into a library where you have old versios of the
>>>>>>> packages
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>  - you belive you are using R-2.14.0 but you are actually using an
>>>>>>> older
>>>>>>> version.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is even reproduced on CRAN.  All platforms work except one:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_sqldf.html
>>>>>
>>>>> No, that one is completely unrelated (and already solved, but not yet
>>>>> synced
>>>>> to CRAN master) to the original question you have removed in your
>>>>> reply.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK.  One would have thought that the checks on CRAN would be
>>>> consistent with the package pages which link to them.
>>>
>>> I only see consistent information on that page.
>>
>> If you go to:
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>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sqldf/index.html
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>> then the tar.gz file was created using R-2.14.0 but if you then click
>> on the  check results  link on the same page it takes you to this:
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>
> Yes. the tar.gz was created with R-2.14.0.
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>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_sqldf.html
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>> On the last link on that page it says ERROR and if click on that it
>> takes you to the output of the check which reveals that it was run
>> with R 2.13.2.
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> Yes, ince it is checked with different flavors of R, R-oldrelease,
> R-release, R-devel. See the first column!
>
> A source package can be created with an version of R and checked under
> another version. There is onlyone source package on CRAN, but - just as an
> exmaple - binaries for R-2.13.x and R-2.14.x. Of course, the checks are
> applied with the versions stated on the check page. I think you haven't got
> the whole point of checking with different versions of R.
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>
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>> The Version column on check_results_sqldf.html page refers to the
>> package's version, not the R version.  To get the R version you must
>> know to click on each link.
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> No, no, no, no! See the first column!
> It definitely states if R-olrelease, R-release, R-pacthed or R-devel is
> used!
>

OK. That wasn't clear. It would be better if it actually identified
the release as R 2.13.2, etc.

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