From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Sun Nov  2 01:21:40 2014
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 20:21:40 -0400
Subject: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites
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On 01/11/2014, 2:58 PM, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
> 
>  >> have tried running the test suite in a build that's configured with
>  >> '--without-recommended-packages'?
>  >
>  > Of course this fails in the case when we check for the recommended packages:
>  >
>  >   | < character(0)
>  >   | ---
>  >   | > [1] "Matrix" "nlme"   "mgcv"
>  >
>  > If Matrix et al are not there, they can't be reported to be there, of
>  > course...
> 
> maybe that test could be made a little bit smarter to deal with the
> seemingly legit use-case of passing --without-recommended-packages?

The documentation is ambiguous, but certainly it would be easier to
clarify it than to change this.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites
Duncan Murdoch