[R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

[Marc Schwartz]

On Mar 21, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:

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> On Mar 20, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
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>> Prof Ripley,
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>> A quick note to indicate that it appears that the primary 'tests' directory, which contains the code and related files for running tools::testInstalledBasic() is not present in the current OSX binary package for 3.0.0 beta (http://r.research.att.com/snowleopard/R-3.0-branch/R-3.0-branch-snowleopard-signed.pkg).
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>> As a consequence, the following fails:
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>>> testInstalledBasic("both")
>> Error in setwd(file.path(R.home(), "tests")) : 
>> cannot change working directory
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>> with the missing directory being:
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>>> file.path(R.home(), "tests")
>> [1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/tests"
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>> Similarly, it seems that the individual 'tests' directories, where appropriate, for base and recommended packages (used via tools::testInstalledPackages()) are also not present in the current OSX beta binary package.
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>> I presume that this may have been inadvertent in the preparation of this build prior to Simon's departure.
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> Yes, the build just did make install and not install-tests, now fixed. Also there was a crontab hiccup so hopefully nightlies will be showing up as before.
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> Thanks,
> Simon


Thanks for the update Simon. I will re-try with an updated binary build as soon as I get a chance.

Regards,

Marc

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>> Beyond that, I also wanted to note and say thanks (Fritz?) for modifying Sweave so that the output now includes the line number for the chunk being processed. A major help for debugging.
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>> Regards,
>> 
>> Marc Schwartz
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