[R] testInstalledBasic

[Cody Hamilton]

Hello Marc,

I think I am quite a dunce!

I have diff.exe in the folder C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.0\bin, which is where the R.exe file is located.

I ran the following from the command line:

> diff C:/Program Files/R/R-2.13.0/tests/eval-etc.Rout C:/Program Files/R/R-2.13.0/tests/eval-etc.Rout.save > diff.txt
Error: unexpected symbol in "diff C"


I tried again with quotes around the file names:

> diff 'C:/Program Files/R/R-2.13.0/tests/eval-etc.Rout' 'C:/Program Files/R/R-2.13.0/tests/eval-etc.Rout.save' > diff.txt
Error: unexpected string constant in "diff 'C:/Program Files/R/R-2.13.0/tests/eval-etc.Rout'"

Regards,
  Cody

--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:

> From: Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] testInstalledBasic
> To: "Cody Hamilton" <cody.shawn at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>, r-help at r-project.org
> Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 10:16 AM
> Cody,
> 
> The 'diff' program should be installed with Duncan's RTools
> package on Windows and if in your path, should be usable via
> the CLI.
> 
> From a Windows console command line, in the folder where
> the output files in question are located, use:
> 
>   diff eval-etc.Rout eval-etc.Rout.save > diff.txt
> 
> That will generate the file diff.txt, which will contain
> the line by line differences in the two files, which you can
> post back for review.
> 
> There is also this post from Prof. Ripley from last year:
> 
>   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-May/237922.html
> 
> which may perhaps be helpful for Uwe in considering other
> possible solutions if locale is relevant here.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
> 
> On Jul 1, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Cody Hamilton wrote:
> 
> > Hello Uwe,
> > 
> > Please forgive my ignorance - how can I get my diffs?
> > 
> > Regards,
> >   -Cody
> > 
> > --- On Fri, 7/1/11, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> >> Subject: Re: [R] testInstalledBasic
> >> To: "Cody Hamilton" <cody.shawn at yahoo.com>
> >> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> >> Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 9:13 AM
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 01.07.2011 18:07, Cody Hamilton wrote:
> >>> Hi Uwe,
> >>> 
> >>> Thank you for taking the time to look into
> this!
> >>> 
> >>> I created the function my.test by modifying
> >> testInstalledBasic with the line change you list
> below and
> >> then ran:
> >>> 
> >>> Sys.setenv(LC_COLLATE="C")
> >>> my.test('basic')
> >>> 
> >>> I get the same error message as before:
> >>> 
> >>>> my.test('basic')
> >>> running strict specific tests
> >>>     running code in
> ‘eval-etc.R’
> >>>     comparing
> ‘eval-etc.Rout’ to
> >> ‘eval-etc.Rout.save’ ...[1] 1
> >> 
> >> 
> >> But we really need your diffs!
> >> 
> >> Uwe Ligges
> 
>