[R-sig-Debian] Problems compiling R

[Johannes Ranke]

On Friday 18 November 2011 20:34:59 Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> Hola!
> 
> I had my hard disk and cpu fried, so had to reinstall debian from
> scratch, and now I have problems compiling R
> R-2.14.0. My system is wheezy with Xfce4 desktop.  (-amd-64)

Ola Kjetil,

you may want to consider installing the latest R from unstable by apt pinning. 
The respective section from the Debian README on CRAN:

"DEBIAN TESTING

Before R 2.12.2, when squeeze was not released yet, I proposed apt-pinning for 
installing up-to-date R packages from unstable (sid) on squeeze by creating a 
file /etc/apt/preferences containing

   Package: *
   Pin: release a=testing
   Pin-Priority: 650

   Package: *
   Pin: release a=unstable
   Pin-Priority: 600

and adding a line for unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list. As the new testing 
distribution with codename wheezy is not frozen, you can remove or uncomment 
these entries, except if you want to have the latest R version on wheezy 
before it migrates from unstable to testing."

Kind regards,

Johannes


> 
> ./configure
> make
> 
> runs without problems, but make test dose not!
> 
> Here is some of the output from make test:
> 
> 
> kjetil at kjetil:~/R/R-2.14.0$ make check
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/R-2.14.0/tests'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/R-2.14.0/tests'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/R-2.14.0/tests/Examples'
> initializing class and method definitions ...done
> Testing examples for package ‘base’
>   comparing ‘base-Ex.Rout’ to ‘base-Ex.Rout.prev’ ...
> 1401c1401
> <                               "Linux"                      
> "3.0.0-1-amd64" ---
> 
> >                              "Linux"                     "2.6.32-5-amd64"
> 
> 1403c1403
> < "#1 SMP Sat Aug 27 16:21:11 UTC 2011"                             
> "kjetil" ---
> 
> > "#1 SMP Thu Nov 3 03:41:26 UTC 2011"                             "kjetil"
> 
> 5667c5667
> < 67
> ---
> 
> > 54
> 
> Testing examples for package ‘tools’
>   comparing ‘tools-Ex.Rout’ to ‘tools-Ex.Rout.save’ ...
> files differ in number of lines:
> 1d0
> < initializing class and method definitions ...done
> Testing examples for package ‘utils’
>   comparing ‘utils-Ex.Rout’ to ‘utils-Ex.Rout.prev’ ... OK
> Testing examples for package ‘grDevices’
>   comparing ‘grDevices-Ex.Rout’ to ‘grDevices-Ex.Rout.save’ ...
> files differ in number of lines:
> 1d0
> < initializing class and method definitions ...done
> Testing examples for package ‘graphics’
>   comparing ‘graphics-Ex.Rout’ to ‘graphics-Ex.Rout.save’ ...
> files differ in number of lines:
> 1d0
> < initializing class and method definitions ...done
> Testing examples for package ‘stats’
>   comparing ‘stats-Ex.Rout’ to ‘stats-Ex.Rout.save’ ...
> files differ in number of lines:
> 1d0
> < initializing class and method definitions ...done
> Testing examples for package ‘datasets’
>   comparing ‘datasets-Ex.Rout’ to ‘datasets-Ex.Rout.save’ ...
> files differ in number of lines:
> 1d0
> 
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