From pdalgd at gmail.com  Sun Sep 12 10:51:47 2010
From: pdalgd at gmail.com (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:51:47 +0200
Subject: [Rd] More strange R CMD build/check errors on Windows
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On 09/12/2010 08:10 AM, Herv? Pag?s wrote:
...
> 
> AFAICT those problems were never seen before (i.e. with R < 2.12).
> They show up randomly everyday for a small number of packages
> (between 10 and 20 out of 400). The set of victims changes everyday
> and any package seems to be a potential victim (I've not been able
> to observe any obvious pattern so far).
> Does anyone have any idea what could make 'R CMD build' and
> 'R CMD check' so confused/unreliable on Windows?
> 
> Thanks,
> H.
> 

Antivirus software? I suspect you already ruled that out, but it has
been the culprit for problems with mysteriously disappearing
intermediate files in several cases, so I thought I'd mention it.


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[Rd] More strange R CMD build/check errors on Windows
Peter Dalgaard