On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21/03/2013 12:59 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fhcrc.org> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > After updating to R-3.0 beta r62328, I get the following: >> > >> >> install.packages("Biobase", type="source", >> >> repos="http://george2/BBS/2.12/bioc") >> > Error in do.call(op, list(v_c, v_t[[op]])) : >> > could not find function "R (>=2.15.1)" >> > >> > The problem can be fixed by adding a space after >= in the offending >> > package's DESCRIPTION file and re-generating the PACKAGES file with >> > tools:::write_PACKAGES(). >> > >> > However, this worked OK in r62077. >> >> Beg pardon, this did not work in r62077 either. >> >> However I still think it's worth reporting. > > > I don't think this has changed recently. The manual currently says "The > comment should contain a comparison operator, whitespace and a valid version > number." In 2.15.0 it was less explicit, but the example contained a space. > It may be that some code path worked before more or less by accident, > because in December changes were made to the parsing to avoid a tricky > reentrancy problem, but I don't think it has ever been documented to work > without whitespace. > > I can't think of the reason white space was required, but the code does > explicitly look for it, so I'd be reluctant to change it. >
You're right. It was not R that changed, but something on our side. R CMD build will not build a package with such a malformed version specifier, so it normally would not be an issue. Please disregard and sorry for the noise. Dan > Duncan Murdoch > >> Dan >> >> >> > I'm not sure if >=2.15.1 (without >> > the space) is valid syntax, but I wonder if R can be a bit more >> > forgiving, as this issue derailed our daily builds. >> > >> >> sessionInfo() >> > R version 3.0.0 alpha (2013-03-18 r62312) >> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit) >> > >> > locale: >> > [1] C >> > >> > attached base packages: >> > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> > >> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> > [1] tools_3.0.0 >> > >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Dan >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel