No output from the tools command Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Robert King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm testing a FC5 machine for use in a student lab. R 2.3.1 is installed >> and >> seems to work fine. There is one peculiarity - the logins are >> authenticating >> to a server, and a "verbose" flag is set somewhere, leading to lots of >> spurious messages like this >> >> request done: ld 0xa227598 msgid 1 >> >> which may be confusing R. >> >> However, R CMD check seems to fail for packages with no dependencies at the >> dependencies check stage. >> >> I've tried this with two packages, my own gld and also zipfR. Both fail in >> the same way. >> >> [Desktop]$ R CMD check zipfR_0.6-0.tar.gz >> * checking for working latex ... OK >> request done: ld 0x8dfb170 msgid 1 >> request done: ld 0x8dfb170 msgid 2 >> * using log directory '/home/rak776/Desktop/zipfR.Rcheck' >> * using Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) >> * checking for file 'zipfR/DESCRIPTION' ... OK >> * checking extension type ... Package >> * this is package 'zipfR' version '0.6-0' >> * checking package dependencies ... ERROR >> [Desktop]$ R CMD check gld >> * checking for working latex ... OK >> * using log directory '/home/rak776/Desktop/gld.Rcheck' >> * using Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) >> * checking for file 'gld/DESCRIPTION' ... OK >> * this is package 'gld' version '1.8' >> * checking package dependencies ... ERROR >> >> Both these work on two other systems - one a debian/sarge AMD64 and a >> debian/sarge i386 > > And at least the former is quite happy on a vanilla FC5/ R2.3.1 > > What happens if you fire up R --quiet and submit > > tools:::.check_package_depends("zipfR") > > (after unpacking the tarball, of course)? This gives no output for me.
Similarly, no output >> A package with dependencies checks for dependencies correctly - for example >> ade4: >> >> Desktop]$ R CMD check ade4_1.4-1.tar.gz >> * checking for working latex ... OK >> request done: ld 0x994b168 msgid 1 >> request done: ld 0x994b168 msgid 2 >> request done: ld 0x994b168 msgid 3 >> * using log directory '/home/rak776/Desktop/ade4.Rcheck' >> * using Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) >> * checking for file 'ade4/DESCRIPTION' ... OK >> * this is package 'ade4' version '1.4-1' >> * checking package dependencies ... ERROR >> request done: ld 0xa458598 msgid 1 >> request done: ld 0xa458598 msgid 2 >> request done: ld 0xa458598 msgid 3 >> Packages required but not available: >> waveslim splancs maptools spdep pixmap ape tripack >> >> Does anyone have ideas on what is going wrong? >> >> Regards, >> Robert King ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.