[Rd] 'R CMD INSTALL' keeps going on despite serious errors, and returns exit code 0

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi list,

Here is an example:

     hpages using XPS15:~$ R CMD INSTALL CoreGx
     * installing to library ‘/home/hpages/R/R-4.4.r85388/site-library’
     * installing *source* package ‘CoreGx’ ...
     ** using staged installation
     ** R
     ** data
     *** moving datasets to lazyload DB
     ** inst
     ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
     Error : in method for ‘updateObject’ with signature 
‘object="CoreSet"’:  arguments (‘verbose’) after ‘...’ in the generic 
must appear in the method, in the same place at the end of the argument list
     Error: unable to load R code in package ‘CoreGx’
     ** help
     *** installing help indices
     ** building package indices
     ** installing vignettes
     ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
     Error : in method for ‘updateObject’ with signature 
‘object="CoreSet"’:  arguments (‘verbose’) after ‘...’ in the generic 
must appear in the method, in the same place at the end of the argument list
     Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘CoreGx’:
  unable to load R code in package ‘CoreGx’
     Error: loading failed
     ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
     Error : in method for ‘updateObject’ with signature 
‘object="CoreSet"’:  arguments (‘verbose’) after ‘...’ in the generic 
must appear in the method, in the same place at the end of the argument list
     Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘CoreGx’:
  unable to load R code in package ‘CoreGx’
     Error: loading failed
     Error : in method for ‘updateObject’ with signature 
‘object="CoreSet"’:  arguments (‘verbose’) after ‘...’ in the generic 
must appear in the method, in the same place at the end of the argument list
     Error: unable to load R code in package ‘CoreGx’
     ** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary 
installation path
     * DONE (CoreGx)

Many serious errors were ignored. Plus the command returned exit code 0:

     hpages using XPS15:~$ echo $?
     0

This is with R 4.4, that BioC 3.19 will be based on and that we only 
started to use recently for our daily builds.

Strangely, we only see this on Linux. On Windows and Mac, we get the 
usual hard error, as expected. See:

- 
https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/3.19/bioc-LATEST/CoreGx/nebbiolo1-install.html

- 
https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/3.19/bioc-LATEST/CoreGx/palomino3-install.html

- 
https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/3.19/bioc-LATEST/CoreGx/merida1-install.html

To reproduce:

     library(remotes)
     install_git("https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/CoreGx")

Thanks,

H.

 > sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2023-10-22 r85388)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Running under: Ubuntu 23.10

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /home/hpages/R/R-4.4.r85388/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.11.0

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

time zone: America/Los_Angeles
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base

other attached packages:
[1] remotes_2.4.2.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
  [1] processx_3.8.2    compiler_4.4.0    R6_2.5.1 rprojroot_2.0.3
  [5] cli_3.6.1         prettyunits_1.2.0 tools_4.4.0 crayon_1.5.2
  [9] desc_1.4.2        callr_3.7.3       pkgbuild_1.4.2 ps_1.7.5

-- 
Hervé Pagès

Bioconductor Core Team
hpages.on.github using gmail.com

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