[R] Build fails for R 1.6.2: [base-Ex.Rout] Error 1

[Christopher Fonnesbeck]

I am trying to build 1.6.2 from source RPM's on RedHat 9, but encounter 
a failure when running the base tests. An inspection of 
base-Ex.Rout.fail reveals the following:

 > ##___ Examples ___:
 >
 > var(1:10)# 9.166667
[1] 9.166667
 >
 > var(1:5,1:5)# 2.5
[1] 2.5
 >
 > ## Two simple vectors
 > cor(1:10,2:11)# == 1
[1] 1
 >
 >
 >  stopifnot(  is.na(var(1)),
+            !is.nan(var(1)))
Error: !is.nan(var(1)) is not TRUE
Execution halted

Any ideas?

TIA,
chris fonnesbeck
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Christopher J. Fonnesbeck (chris at fonnesbeck.org)
GA Coop. Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, University of Georgia

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