From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Tue Dec  9 11:02:33 2008
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:02:33 +0100
Subject: [Rd] R CMD check not running examples under Windows
In-Reply-To: <366AA6C6662BAB4796FF54F8D8BFC74202B7973647@ExchMailbox1.univ.dir.wwu.edu>
References: <366AA6C6662BAB4796FF54F8D8BFC74202B7973647@ExchMailbox1.univ.dir.wwu.edu>
Message-ID: <493E4239.2090300@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>

My suggestion is to submit the package to the win-builder service and 
look whether that one checks your example, then you know if it is the 
package or your setup that causes the problem.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


Andy Bunn wrote:
> All, 
> 
> 
> I have a fresh build of R 2.8.0 from source on Windows XP using the latest Rtools binary (Rtools29.exe). All appears to be well with the install and make check-all exits cleanly. However, when running R CMD check mypkg the program jumps from checking for non-ASCII to checking the PDF version of the manual:
> 
> * checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> * checking PDF version of manual ... OK
> 
> It skips the making the R-ex subdir and checking the examples. Here is the complete log:
> 
> 
> * using log directory 'C:/Data/research/dplR_dev/dplR.Rcheck'
> * using R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
> * using session charset: ISO8859-1
> * checking for file 'dplR/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * checking extension type ... Package
> * this is package 'dplR' version '1.1.5'
> * checking package name space information ... OK
> * checking package dependencies ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> * checking for .dll and .exe files ... OK
> * checking whether package 'dplR' can be installed ... OK
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking for portable file names ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking top-level files ... OK
> * checking index information ... OK
> * checking package subdirectories ... OK
> * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
> * checking whether the name space can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
> * checking for unstated dependencies in R code ... OK
> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
> * checking replacement functions ... OK
> * checking foreign function calls ... OK
> * checking R code for possible problems ... OK
> * checking Rd files ... OK
> * checking Rd cross-references ... OK
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
> * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
> * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
> * checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> * checking PDF version of manual ... OK
> 
> I am running this with no flags yet it seems like I'm outside this line in the check script:
>   if($opt_examples && (-d &file_path($library, $pkgname, "R-ex"))) {
> 
> Here is the version:
>> version
>                _                           
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32             
> arch           i386                        
> os             mingw32                     
> system         i386, mingw32               
> status                                     
> major          2                           
> minor          8.0                         
> year           2008                        
> month          10                          
> day            20                          
> svn rev        46754                       
> language       R                           
> version.string R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
> 
> 
> And the PATH:
> C:\Data\research\dplR_dev>PATH
> PATH=c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\perl\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\R\R-2.8.0\bin\;C:\P
> rogram Files\HTML Help Workshop\;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin;C:\cygwi
> n\bin;C:\FWTools2.2.6\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbe
> m;C:\WINDOWS\system32\nls;C:\WINDOWS\system32\nls\ENGLISH;C:\Program Files\Novel
> l\ZENworks\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem;C:\ArcGIS\arcexe9x\bin;C:\Progra
> m Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin;C:\Program Files\GPS Pathfinder Office 3.10;C:\
> dpl;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\SSH Communications Sec
> urity\SSH Secure Shell;Z:.;
> 
> I expect some cygwin or perl issue but I'm not sure how to proceed in tracking this down. Cygwin is a fresh install as well. Any suggestions on what to do next greatly appreciated.
> 
> -A
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Andy Bunn
> Environmental Sciences, Huxley College
> Western Washington University
> Bellingham, WA 98225-9181
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[Rd] R CMD check not running examples under Windows
Uwe Ligges