From patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr  Mon May  5 08:15:29 2008
From: patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr (Patrick Giraudoux)
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 08:15:29 +0200
Subject: [Rd] troubles with R CMD check and examples under Ubuntu gutsy
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Berwin A Turlach a ?crit :
> G'day Patrick
>
> On Mon, 05 May 2008 07:02:23 +0200
> Patrick Giraudoux <patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
>
>   
>> I was used to package pgirmess under Windows with everything OK, but, 
>> for the first time, I had a trial this afternoon on Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy
>> (I have a double boot computer and work more and more under unix) and
>> R 2.7.0. 
>>     
>
> FWIW, on my Ubuntu 8.04 heron machine, with pgirmess_1.3.6.tar.gz from
> CRAN, I can run `R CMD check pgirmess_1.3.6.tar.gz' without problems.
>
> Are you talking about that version, or a current development version?
>
> But I have compiled R on my boxes myself.  How did you install R?  From
> source or by using the prepackaged Ubuntu deb files?
>   
 From the pre-packaged Ubuntu, updated to 6.7.0 recently ? Do you think 
it may come from this ?

>> sudo R CMD check pgirmess
>>     
>
> Why do you run this command as root?  I would avoid something like
> this.  Is the directory in which pgirmess is in not writeable for your
> usual user-id?  Perhaps the problem is that the root account is not
> correctly set up to use R (but I would find that hard to believe).
>
>   
No, sorry it was just my mistake. After the failure as standard user, I 
was wondering if packaging should be done as super-user... but things 
come similar.

Patrick


[Rd] troubles with R CMD check and examples under Ubuntu gutsy
Patrick Giraudoux