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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 08.11.2011 19:08, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 2011/11/8 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>>
>>
>> On 08.11.2011 17:56, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>>
>>> 2011/11/8 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 08.11.2011 17:04, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sqldf/index.html
>>>
>>> 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:
>>
>>
>> Yes. the tar.gz was created with R-2.14.0.
>>
>>
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_sqldf.html
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.

We do not want to change those fields daily: R-devel and R-patched 
typically change from day to day - and then things will really become 
inconsistent in some place.

Uwe