Hi Brian, > R-devel (your subject line) is not a pre-release of R 3.3.3: it is 'R > Under development' for what is planned as R 3.4.0. Pre-release > tarballs for 3.3.3 are things like R-rc_2017-02-26_r72260.tar.gz (and > were previously labelled R-beta).
I did not realize this distinction exists. I am sorry about the misleading report. I followed the link for "3.3.3 release candidates" and didn't expect that directory to contain tarballs for 3.4.0, too. In hindsight, that should have been obvious from the different file names, I suppose. Thank you for the clarification. I re-ran the build and test suite with the correct tarball, R-rc_2017-02-28_r72286.tar.gz, and the result looks different indeed. With that version, I get a test suite error in reg-tests-1c from "tests". I'm citing the relevant bit from "reg-tests-1c.Rout.fail": | > [...] | > ## format.POSIXlt() of Jan.1 if 1941 or '42 is involved: | > tJan1 <- function(n1, n2) | + strptime(paste0(n1:n2,"/01/01"), "%Y/%m/%d", tz="CET") | > wDSTJan1 <- function(n1, n2) | + which("CEST" == sub(".* ", '', format(tJan1(n1,n2), usetz=TRUE))) | > (w8 <- wDSTJan1(1801, 2300)) | integer(0) | > (w9 <- wDSTJan1(1901, 2300)) | integer(0) | > stopifnot(identical(w8, 141:142),# exactly 1941:1942 had CEST on Jan.1 | + identical(w9, 41: 42)) | Error: identical(w8, 141:142) is not TRUE | Execution halted This happens in the --without-recommended-packages style build. Not sure whether this is relevant. The sessionInfo() output looks as follows: | R version 3.3.3 RC (2017-02-28 r72286) | Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) | | locale: | [1] C | | attached base packages: | [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets base Best regards, Peter ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel