[Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 01:21:40 CET 2014
On 01/11/2014, 2:58 PM, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
>
> >> 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...
>
> maybe that test could be made a little bit smarter to deal with the
> seemingly legit use-case of passing --without-recommended-packages?
The documentation is ambiguous, but certainly it would be easier to
clarify it than to change this.
Duncan Murdoch
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