[Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites
Peter Simons
simons at cryp.to
Sat Nov 1 13:30:14 CET 2014
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
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