[R] Error in "make check-all"

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> This is what happens if you don't have a usable X11 display.  Did you 
> perhaps use a root account on a console owned by a normal user?

More likely on SUSE is to get done in by a lack of -devel packages.
I've already mentioned tcl-devel and tk-devel but you also need 
xorg-x11-devel, readline-devel, and libjpeg-devel. The latter two are
not going to cause that particular error though. 
 
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Fernando Mayer wrote:
> 
> > Dear R-users,
> >
> > i'm a very newbie in linux, but decided to build R from source.
> > Following the "R Installation and Administration" manual, i did this:
> >
> > ./configure --enable-R-shlib # this option is here because i intend to
> > build the GNOME console after...
> > make
> > make check
> >
> > no problems in make check, but:
> >
> > make check-devel #and also
> > make check-all
> >
> > indicated some WARNINGs in the log file:
> >
> > /usr/local/R-2.1.1/tests/tcltk.Rcheck/00check.Rcheck
> >
> > Right below is the content of this log file (I translated some words):
> >
> > [start log file]
> >
> > * using log directory '/usr/local/R-2.1.1/tests/tcltk.Rcheck'
> > * using R version 2.1.1, 2005-06-20
> > * looks like 'tcltk' is a base package
> > * skipping installation test
> > * checking package directory ... OK
> > * checking for portable file names ... OK
> > * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
> > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> > * checking package dependencies ... OK
> > * checking index information ... OK
> > * checking package subdirectories ... OK
> > * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... WARNING
> > Erro: .First.lib failed for 'tcltk'
> > Call sequence:
> > 2: stop(gettextf(".First.lib failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)),
> >       domain = NA)
> > 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose =
> > FALSE)
> > Interrupted execution
> > See section 'Generic functions and methods' of the 'Writing R Extensions'
> > manual.
> > * checking replacement functions ... WARNING
> > Error: .First.lib failed for 'tcltk'
> > Call sequence:
> > 2: stop(gettextf(".First.lib failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)),
> >       domain = NA)
> > 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose =
> > FALSE)
> > Interrupted execution
> > In R, the argument of a replacement function which corresponds to the right
> > hand side must be named 'value'.
> > * checking foreign function calls ... WARNING
> > Error: .First.lib failed for 'tcltk'
> > Call sequence:
> > 2: stop(gettextf(".First.lib failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)),
> >       domain = NA)
> > 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose =
> > FALSE)
> > Interrupted execution
> > See section 'System and foreign language interfaces' of the 'Writing R
> > Extensions' manual.
> > * checking Rd files ... OK
> > * checking for missing documentation entries ... WARNING
> > Error: .First.lib failed for 'tcltk'
> > Call sequence:
> > 2: stop(gettextf(".First.lib failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)),
> >       domain = NA)
> > 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose =
> > FALSE)
> > Interrupted execution
> > All user-level objects in a package should have documentation entries.
> > See chapter 'Writing R documentation files' in manual 'Writing R
> > Extensions'.
> > * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... WARNING
> > Error: .First.lib failed for 'tcltk'
> > Call sequence:
> > 2: stop(gettextf(".First.lib failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)),
> >       domain = NA)
> > 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose =
> > FALSE)
> > Interrupted execution
> > Error: .First.lib failed for 'tcltk'
> > Call sequence:
> > 2: stop(gettextf(".First.lib failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)),
> >       domain = NA)
> > 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose =
> > FALSE)
> > Interrupted execution
> > Error: .First.lib failed for 'tcltk'
> > Call sequence:
> > 2: stop(gettextf(".First.lib failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)),
> >       domain = NA)
> > 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose =
> > FALSE)
> > Interrupted execution
> > * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
> > * checking DVI version of manual ... OK
> >
> > [end log file]
> >
> > The problem is in the tcltk package. I have searched in the archives,
> > but didin't find anything similar to this problem (maybe there is, but i
> > was not able to identify it). I really don't know what all the warnings
> > means. What i need to know is what am i missing, and if there is
> > something i can fix it. Also, are there any problems if i continue the
> > installation without fix something?
> >
> > P.S.: actually R is running already from where it was buit, but i want
> > to install it. So i want to avoid future problems, if this warnings
> > really make some.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> > Fernando Mayer.
> >
> > version
> >         _
> > platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > arch     i686
> > os       linux-gnu [SuSE 9.3]
> > system   i686, linux-gnu
> > status
> > major    2
> > minor    1.1
> > year     2005
> > month    06
> > day      20
> > language R
> >
> >
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