From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Tue Mar 13 18:23:32 2012
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:23:32 +0100
Subject: [Rd] "note: symbols.rds is not available"
In-Reply-To: <4F5F7B4A.5010108@gmail.com>
References: <4F5F7B4A.5010108@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4F5F8294.4060002@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>

This is used for checking unsave symbols in compiled code (such as 
abort, exit or printf calls). For some reason you could not generate the 
symbols and hence a note. Therefore, this does not indicate a problem 
with the package.

Uwe Ligges


On 13.03.2012 17:52, Ben Bolker wrote:
>
>    I've encountered this note in checking packages with the latest
> R-devel. Googling finds it only in other package checks; searching the
> source tree finds in src/library/tools/R/sotools.R , but I'm not sure
> what it's doing there.
>
>
> 'symbols.rds' shows up in the SVN log here:
>
> r58591 | ripley | 2012-03-05 07:25:58 -0500 (Mon, 05 Mar 2012) | 1 line
>
> treat non-symbols.rds reports on base packages differently
>
> r58539 | ripley | 2012-03-01 04:54:39 -0500 (Thu, 01 Mar 2012) | 1 line
>
> comment if expecting symbols.rds and not found
>
>
>    Any thoughts? Is it harmless?  How would I fix the issue/suppress
> the note?
>
>    thanks
>      Ben Bolker
>
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[Rd] "note: symbols.rds is not available"
Uwe Ligges