[Rd] R-devel (rev 76409) fails 'make check': non-generic function 'isSymmetric' given to findMethods()

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 21/04/2019 4:56 p.m., Benjamin Tyner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Most likely I'm doing something wrong, but am at a loss as to what the
> issue is. I have a clean checkout of trunk here: >
>      ~/svn/r-devel/R$ svn info
>      Path: .
>      Working Copy Root Path: /home/btyner/svn/r-devel/R
>      URL: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk
>      Relative URL: ^/trunk
>      Repository Root: https://svn.r-project.org/R
>      Repository UUID: 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41
>      Revision: 76409
>      Node Kind: directory
>      Schedule: normal
>      Last Changed Author: ripley
>      Last Changed Rev: 76409
>      Last Changed Date: 2019-04-21 06:32:24 -0400 (Sun, 21 Apr 2019)
> 
> I then ran:
> 
>      mkdir ~/svn/R-devel-build
>      cd ~/svn/R-devel-build
>      ../r-devel/R/configure --prefix=/home/btyner/R-76409
> --enable-R-shlib --with-blas --with-lapack --with-readline
> --without-recommended-packages
>      make
>      make check
> 
> which fails at reg-tests-1d.R; the failure being:
> 
>      > ## str() now even works with invalid objects:
>      > moS <- mo <- findMethods("isSymmetric")
>      Error in findMethods("isSymmetric") :
>        (converted from warning) non-generic function 'isSymmetric' given
> to findMethods()
>      Execution halted

Likely the problem is that you don't have the recommended packages 
loaded.  When I was running tests regularly, they were required.  Later, 
I think they became optional.  Perhaps a new test has been added that 
once again assumes the required packages are installed.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> I am able to build revision 76407 from source just fine (using
> https://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-devel_2019-04-20_r76407.tar.gz)
> and all make check tests are successful.
> 
> Any ideas? Here is my sessionInfo() from the revision 76407 build:
> 
>      R Under development (unstable) (2019-04-20 r76407)
>      Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>      Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
> 
>      Matrix products: default
>      BLAS: /home/btyner/R-devel_2019-04-20_r76407/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
>      LAPACK: /home/btyner/R-devel_2019-04-20_r76407/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so
> 
>      locale:
>        [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>        [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>        [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>        [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>        [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>      [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
>      attached base packages:
>      [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base
> 
>      loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>      [1] compiler_3.7.0
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ben
> 
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