[R] building r-patch

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The first is more or less what you should expect.

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I am building r-patch from the sources (rsync-ed today).
>  
> make check produced the following message:
>  
> running tests of Internet and socket functions
>   expect some differences
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/evahome/vograno/R/tests'
> running code in 'internet.R' ... OK
> comparing 'internet.Rout' to './internet.Rout.save' ...18c18
> < Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 134991 bytes
> ---
> > Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 124178 bytes
> 22,23c22,23
> < .......... .......... .......... .
> < downloaded 131Kb
> ---
> > .......... .......... .
> > downloaded 121Kb
> 25c25
> < [1] 273
> ---
> > [1] 251
> 60,61d59
> < Error in url(" <http://foo.bar> http://foo.bar", "r") : unable to open
> connection
> < In addition: Warning message: 
> 62a61
> > Error in url(" <http://foo.bar> http://foo.bar", "r") : unable to open
> connection
> 365,370c364
> <  Login: root              Name: root
> < Directory: /root                     Shell: /bin/tcsh
> < Last login Wed Nov  5 13:34 (PST) on pts/1 from
> verdi.irisfinancial.com
> < New mail received Wed Nov  5 04:02 2003 (PST)
> <      Unread since Fri Oct 24 04:02 2003 (PDT )
> < No Plan.
> ---
> > Error in make.socket(host, port) : Socket not established
>  OK
>     
>  
>  
> I noticed that I had to expect some differences so my question is how to
> tell whether it's harmless or not?
>  
>  
> Other questions are related to building of recommended packages:
> * The src/library/Recommended directory was empty. Is it expected? 

No.  You forgot to run tools/rsync-recommended in the sources.

> If
> yes, how to download the entire bundle of recommended packages (I know I
> can get them one by one)? Is install.packaes() the recommended way?
> * make check tried to test MASS and survival (and failed because the
> packages were not there), but it didn't try to test the other
> recommended  packages. Why only these two?

It did not test those packages, it tried to make use of them.  make
check-all would have tested the recommended packages.

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