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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:10:19 -0700
Subject: [Rd] More strange R CMD build/check errors on Windows
Message-ID: <4C8C6ECB.5080705@fhcrc.org>

Hi,

This is a follow up to:

   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-July/057921.html

The Bioconductor daily builds have been reporting a lot of strange
things lately on Windows using R-2.12. This started 2 or 3 months
ago and things are not getting better with recent R-2.12.
Here is a sample from today's build results. We use Windows Server
2003 R2 for the 32-bit builds, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
for the 64-bit builds, and R-2.12 (2010-08-26 r52817) on both machines:


 >>> On 64-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD build ACME
--> produces no output at all and returns code 0.


 >>> On 32-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD check --no-vignettes --timings affypdnn_1.23.0.tar.gz
* using log directory 'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/affypdnn.Rcheck'
* using R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-08-26 r52817)
* using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* using option '--no-vignettes'
* checking for file 'affypdnn/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'affypdnn' version '1.23.0'
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking whether package 'affypdnn' can be installed ...Warning in 
file(con, "r") :
   cannot open file 
'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/affypdnn.Rcheck/00install.out': No such 
file or directory
Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
Execution halted


 >>> On 32-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD build ArrayTools
* checking for file 'ArrayTools/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'ArrayTools':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* installing the package to re-build vignettes
       -----------------------------------
Warning: unknown option '-l'
* checking for file 
'E:\biocbld\bbs-2.7-bioc\tmpdir\Rtmpg0MxFa\Rinst69801ce4/DESCRIPTION' ... NO
       -----------------------------------
ERROR: Installation failed
Removing installation dir


 >>> On 64-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD build baySeq
* checking for file 'baySeq/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'baySeq':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* installing the package to re-build vignettes
* creating vignettes ... ERROR
Error: ERROR: no packages specified


 >>> On 32-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD check --no-vignettes --timings BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz
Warning: unknown option '--no-vignettes'
Warning: unknown option '--timings'
Converting Rd files to LaTeX ...
   BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz
Warning in readLines(f) :
   incomplete final line found on 'BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz'
Warning in parse_Rd("BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", 
fragment = FALSE,  :
   BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz:2: unexpected UNKNOWN '\?'
Warning: BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz:1: All text must be in a section
Warning: BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz:2: All text must be in a section
Warning: BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz:2: All text must be in a section
Warning: BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz:3: All text must be in a section
Warning: BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz:4: All text must be in a section
Error : BioSeqClass_1.7.0.tar.gz: Sections \title, and \name must exist 
and be unique in Rd files


 >>> On 64-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD build BufferedMatrix
--> produces no output at all and returns code 0.


 >>> On 32-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD check --no-vignettes --timings daMA_1.21.0.tar.gz
* using log directory 'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/daMA.Rcheck'
* using R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-08-26 r52817)
* using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* using option '--no-vignettes'
* checking for file 'daMA/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'daMA' version '1.21.0'
* checking package name space information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking whether package 'daMA' can be installed ...Warning in 
file(con, "r") :
   cannot open file 
'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/daMA.Rcheck/00install.out': No such file 
or directory
Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
Execution halted


 >>> On 32-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD check --no-vignettes --timings ddCt_1.3.2.tar.gz
* using log directory 'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/ddCt.Rcheck'
* using R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-08-26 r52817)
* using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* using option '--no-vignettes'
* checking for file 'ddCt/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'ddCt' version '1.3.2'
* checking package name space information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking whether package 'ddCt' can be installed ...Warning in 
file(con, "r") :
   cannot open file 
'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/ddCt.Rcheck/00install.out': No such file 
or directory
Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
Execution halted


 >>> On 64-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD build GEOmetadb
* checking for file 'GEOmetadb/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'GEOmetadb':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* installing the package to re-build vignettes
* creating vignettes ... ERROR
Error: ERROR: no packages specified


 >>> On 32-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD check --no-vignettes --timings IRanges_1.7.33.tar.gz
* using log directory 'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/IRanges.Rcheck'
* using R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-08-26 r52817)
* using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* using option '--no-vignettes'
* checking for file 'IRanges/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'IRanges' version '1.7.33'
* checking package name space information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking whether package 'IRanges' can be installed ... ERROR
Installation failed.
See 'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/IRanges.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.

Content of IRanges.Rcheck/00install.out:

* install options '--no-html --no-multiarch'

Warning: unknown option '-l'
Warning: unknown option '--no-html'
Warning: unknown option '--no-multiarch'
Error in .pkg2tex(files, outfile, encoding = encoding, append = append,  :
   this package does not have either a 'latex' or a (source) 'man' directory


 >>> On 32-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD check --no-vignettes --timings keggorthology_2.1.1.tar.gz
* using log directory 'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/keggorthology.Rcheck'
* using R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-08-26 r52817)
* using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* using option '--no-vignettes'
* checking for file 'keggorthology/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'keggorthology' version '2.1.1'
* checking package name space information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking whether package 'keggorthology' can be installed ... ERROR
Installation failed.
See 'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/keggorthology.Rcheck/00install.out' 
for details.

Content of keggorthology.Rcheck/00install.out:

* install options '--no-html --no-multiarch'

Warning: unknown option '--no-html'
* using log directory 'E:/biocbld/bbs-2.7-bioc/meat/KEGGOR?1.Rcheck'
* using R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-08-26 r52817)
* using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* checking for file 'KEGGOR?1/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'keggorthology' version '2.1.1'
* checking package name space information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking whether package 'keggorthology' 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 ... ERROR
Error in library(KEGGOR ? 1) : 'package' must be of length 1
Execution halted

It looks like this package has a loading problem: see the messages for
details.


 >>> On 64-bit Windows:

R\bin\R.exe CMD check --no-vignettes --timings OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz
Warning: unknown option '--no-vignettes'
Warning: unknown option '--timings'
Converting Rd files to LaTeX ...
   OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz
Warning in readLines(f) :
   incomplete final line found on 'OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz'
Warning in parse_Rd("OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment 
= FALSE,  :
   OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:2: unexpected '}'
Warning in parse_Rd("OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment 
= FALSE,  :
   OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:4: unexpected '}'
Warning in parse_Rd("OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment 
= FALSE,  :
   OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:7: unexpected '{'
Warning in parse_Rd("OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz", encoding = "unknown", fragment 
= FALSE,  :
   OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:8: unexpected '}'
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:1: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:2: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:2: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:2: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:2: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:3: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:4: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:4: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:4: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:5: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:6: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:7: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:7: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:7: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:8: All text must be in a section
Warning: OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz:8: All text must be in a section
Error : OLIN_1.27.0.tar.gz: Sections \title, and \name must exist and be 
unique in Rd files


 >>> and so on...


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.

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