[R] compiling and testing R-2.12.0

[Patrick Connolly]

On Fri, 15-Oct-2010 at 07:41PM -0300, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:

|> I downloaded the tarball for R-2-12.0, made
|> ./configure
|> make
|> 
|> without problems.
|> 
|> Then
|> make test
|> ...which have now been running for more than an hour, and seems to
|> have stalled at:
|> comparing 'reg-plot-latin1.ps' to './reg-plot-latin1.ps.save' ... OK
|> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/R-2.12.0/tests'
|> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/R-2.12.0/tests'
|> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/R-2.12.0/tests'
|> running tests of Internet and socket functions
|>   expect some differences
|> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/R-2.12.0/tests'
|> running code in 'internet.R' ...
|> 
|> at which point it has been for about an hour!

Do you access the internet via a proxy server?  In my experience, the
HTTP_PROXY variable isn't read by the R process that does those tests.
It doesn't matter much since it times out after about 5 minutes.  I
think the internet tests are the last to run, so you've probably
passed all the others.

HTH



|> 
|> ¿Any ideas?
|> I am running in a shell from within emacs23, on ubuntu 10.10  maverick.
|> 
|> Kjetil
|> 
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