[R] make check when installing R-1.6.0

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jonathan Rougier wrote:

> Brian O'Gorman wrote:
> >
> > This is the result of my make check,  could anyone help me out on this
> > one?
> >
> >      Formats: text example
> > running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...*** Error code 1
> > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `base-Ex.Rout'
> > Current working directory /apps/R/R-1.6.0/tests/Examples
> > *** Error code 1
> > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test-Examples-Base'
> > Current working directory /apps/R/R-1.6.0/tests/Examples
> > *** Error code 1
> > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test-Examples'
> > Current working directory /apps/R/R-1.6.0/tests
> > *** Error code 1
> > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test-all-basics'
> > Current working directory /apps/R/R-1.6.0/tests
> > *** Error code 1
> > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `check'
>
> You want to check the file "${R_HOME}/test/Examples/base-Ex.Rout"
> but my guess would be that you are picking up an old version of MASS.

Pretty unlikely: MASS ships with 1.6.0 and the test is run with --vanilla
so no other library directory is used (unless you have R_LIBS set in the
environment, not a good idea).  So why pick on MASS?

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