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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 01.11.2014 16:33, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
>
>   > 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.
>
> have tried running the test suite in a build that's configured with
> '--without-recommended-packages'?

Of course this fails in the case when we check for the recommended packages:

   | < character(0)
   | ---
   | > [1] "Matrix" "nlme"   "mgcv"

If Matrix et al are not there, they can't be reported to be there, of 
course...

Best,
Uwe Ligges


> That's about the only unusual thing we
> do when building with Nix. Other than that, our build runs on a
> perfectly ordinary Linux -- and it used to succeed fine in earlier
> versions of R.
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
>
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