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

[Robert King]

No output from the tools command

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 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.

Similarly, no output

>> 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