From pdalgd at gmail.com  Wed Oct 23 10:37:47 2013
From: pdalgd at gmail.com (peter dalgaard)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:37:47 +0200
Subject: [Rd] possible Sweave problem in rdevel build on Debian 6.0.8?
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References: <5266CE1A.90200@skyeome.net> <52678917.7060607@stats.ox.ac.uk>
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Affirmative. I was seeing this in 64099, but it disappeared with 64101. (OSX Lion if it matters to anyone)

-pd

On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:30 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Please try again: I could reproduce this on one system prior to r64100.
> 
> On 22/10/2013 20:12, Skye Bender-deMoll wrote:
>> Dear R-Devel,
>> 
>> Note:  I posted a similar message to R-sig-debian yesterday because I
>> assumed it was a Debian issue, received response that it it may be more
>> appropriate for r-devel since it involves building from the svn version.
>> 
>> As of Oct 21, we are running into a build failure when trying to
>> compile the development version of R from the svn repository.  The
>> problem still persists as of Revision:64096:
>> 
>> We are running:
>> 
>> ./configure && make -j4 distclean && ./configure && make -j4
>> 
>> [lots of normal compile output not shown...]
>> 
>> building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
>> processing 'Sweave.Rnw'
>> Error: running Sweave on vignette
>> '/net/home/rpackagebuilder/src/R.trunk/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
>> 
>> 
>> failed with message:
>> <text>:1:1: unexpected '|'
>> 1: |
>>       ^
>> Execution halted
>> make[1]: *** [vignettes-lattice] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/net/home/rpackagebuilder/src/R.trunk/src/library'
>> make: *** [vignettes] Error 2
>> 
>> 
>> The same vignette compiles without error on the same machine using the
>> stable release version of R (which we also build from source with same
>> commands).
>> 
>> Dirk reported yesterday that he was unable to reproduce the problem on
>> r-devel svn "..Using Ubuntu 13.04, current"
>> 
>> Does anyone have suggestions on how I might debug this further to
>> determine if this is an issue with Sweave, or something with our system
>> configuration which would impact one build and not the other?  When I
>> diff the files in utils I see quite a few changes to Sweave between the
>> stable and devel branches, but I'm not sure how to interpret them.
>> 
>> thanks for your help,
>>    -skye
>> 
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> 
> 
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[Rd] possible Sweave problem in rdevel build on Debian 6.0.8?
peter dalgaard