From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Oct 25 12:21:36 2010
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:21:36 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] R-devel CMD build fails when vignette present
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Biobase is not self-contained so I cannot easily test it, but as far 
as I know this is now resolved.

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Martin Morgan wrote:

> If I try to build a package with a vignette
>
>  R CMD build Biobase
>
> I see
>
> * checking for file 'Biobase/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'Biobase':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * cleaning src
> * installing the package to re-build vignettes
> * creating vignettes ... OK
> * cleaning src
> Error in setwd(pkgname) : cannot change working directory
> Execution halted
>
> This is because prepare_pkg invoked at tools/R/build.R:605 changes the
> directory (e.g., from /tmp/RtmprGGHhU/Rbuild257d6d93 to
> /tmp/RtmprGGHhU/Rbuild257d6d93/Biobase), in turn because the on.exit at
> build.R:223 is usurped by on.exit at build.R:256/259.
>
> Martin
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[Rd] R-devel CMD build fails when vignette present
Prof Brian Ripley