[R] R CMD check fails at package dependencies check on Fedora Core 5, works on other systems

[Peter Dalgaard]

Robert King <Robert.King at newcastle.edu.au> writes:

> I'm testing a FC5 machine for use in a student lab.  R 2.3.1 is installed and 
> seems to work fine.  There is one peculiarity - the logins are authenticating 
> to a server, and a "verbose" flag is set somewhere, leading to lots of 
> spurious messages like this
> 
> request done: ld 0xa227598 msgid 1
> 
> which may be confusing R.
> 
> However, R CMD check seems to fail for packages with no dependencies at the 
> dependencies check stage.
> 
> I've tried this with two packages, my own gld and also zipfR.  Both fail in 
> the same way.
> 
> [Desktop]$ R CMD check zipfR_0.6-0.tar.gz
> * checking for working latex ... OK
> request done: ld 0x8dfb170 msgid 1
> request done: ld 0x8dfb170 msgid 2
> * using log directory '/home/rak776/Desktop/zipfR.Rcheck'
> * using Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> * checking for file 'zipfR/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * checking extension type ... Package
> * this is package 'zipfR' version '0.6-0'
> * checking package dependencies ... ERROR
> [Desktop]$ R CMD check gld
> * checking for working latex ... OK
> * using log directory '/home/rak776/Desktop/gld.Rcheck'
> * using Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> * checking for file 'gld/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * this is package 'gld' version '1.8'
> * checking package dependencies ... ERROR
> 
> Both these work on two other systems - one a debian/sarge AMD64 and a 
> debian/sarge i386

And at least the former is quite happy on a vanilla FC5/ R2.3.1

What happens if you fire up R --quiet and submit

 tools:::.check_package_depends("zipfR")

(after unpacking the tarball, of course)? This gives no output for me.

 
> A package with dependencies checks for dependencies correctly - for example 
> ade4:
> 
> Desktop]$ R CMD check ade4_1.4-1.tar.gz
> * checking for working latex ... OK
> request done: ld 0x994b168 msgid 1
> request done: ld 0x994b168 msgid 2
> request done: ld 0x994b168 msgid 3
> * using log directory '/home/rak776/Desktop/ade4.Rcheck'
> * using Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> * checking for file 'ade4/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * this is package 'ade4' version '1.4-1'
> * checking package dependencies ... ERROR
> request done: ld 0xa458598 msgid 1
> request done: ld 0xa458598 msgid 2
> request done: ld 0xa458598 msgid 3
> Packages required but not available:
>   waveslim splancs maptools spdep pixmap ape tripack
> 
> Does anyone have ideas on what is going wrong?
> 
> Regards,
> Robert King
> -- 
> Robert King, Statistics, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences,
> University of Newcastle, Australia
> Room V133  ph +61 2 4921 5548
> Robert.King at newcastle.edu.au   http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/
> 
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