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

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:17:56 -0400 writes:

    > On 01/11/2014, 11:33 AM, 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'? 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.

    > The tests "make check-devel" and "make check-all" are
    > documented to require the recommended packages, and will
    > fail without them.  On Windows, "make check" also needs
    > them, so this may be true on other systems as well.

Thank you Duncan, for clarifying (above and later in the thread).

Would it be hard to strive for

    1)  'make check' should pass without-rec....
    2)  'make check-devel' etc do require the recommended packages.

That would be ideal I think - and correspond to the fact that
we call the recommended packages 'recommended' only.

OTOH, if '1)' is too much work for us, we could add this as a
      'wishlist' item  and wait for someone to send patches..

Martin