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

[Uwe Ligges]

Nobody in R core runs NixOS and can reproduce this. This passes on most 
other platforms, apparently. If you can point us to a problem or send 
patches, we'd appreciate it.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


On 01.11.2014 13:30, Peter Simons wrote:
> 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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