[Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

[Peter Simons]

Hi,

I maintain the R packages in the NixOS Linux distribution [1]. A while
ago, I attempted to update to version 3.1.1, but I ran into the
following test suite failure:

 | Testing examples for package 'tools'
 |   comparing 'tools-Ex.Rout' to 'tools-Ex.Rout.save' ...
 | 452c452
 | < character(0)
 | ---
 | > [1] "Matrix" "nlme"   "mgcv"
 | 856c856
 | < character(0)
 | ---
 | > [1] "lattice"
 | 865c865
 | < character(0)
 | ---
 | > [1] "R (>= 2.15.1)"
 | Testing examples for package 'utils'
 | Error: testing 'utils' failed

I reported that issue at [2], and waited for something to happen. Now,
version 3.1.2 comes out and I try to update again, but it has the exact
same error. Apparently, no-one cares about the problem we've run into?

Now, I wonder how to proceed. It doesn't look like this issue is going
to be fixed any time soon. So I guess I should disable the "make check"
phase in NixOS and ship software to our users that doesn't pass its own
self-test?

Best regards,
Peter


[1] http://nixos.org/
[2] https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15975