On 18 January 2015 at 09:03, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: | I've been implementing a wrapper to the 2011 Fortran version of | L-BFGS-B. In optim(), R uses a C translation of a Fortran version (the | version number does not appear to be documented by the original | authors). The authors of the original Fortran code have updated it and | published the reasons in ACM TOMS due to inefficiencies and a bug. | | In running the checks on the resulting package (which is on R-forge | under the optimizer project), I'm getting a number of warning messages | of the type
If you were so kind to share the __name of the subpackage__ you fail to test, one could attempt to help you. | Warning in file.copy(file.path(.Library, pkg, "DESCRIPTION"), pd) : | problem copying /usr/lib/R/library/mgcv/DESCRIPTION to | /tmp/Rtmp0kkeHo/RLIBS_1214765d1c5f/mgcv/DESCRIPTION: No such file or | directory | | which reference DESCRIPTIONs for a number of packages other than the one | being checked -- here mgcv -- and which are not referenced in my package | as far as I can determine. I've seen that when R tries to be too clever by half -- somehow .libPaths() ends up being partial. Following the high-level decision by Hornik, Leisch and Eddelbuettel made circa 2003 in a pub in Vienna, the Debian packages use three entries, and if you have recommended packages installed via apt, R may now pretend they don't exist. I could work on an alternate setup via Github and Travis but as you managed to make this non-reproducible I cannot actually try that ... Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel