From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Jun 18 17:33:30 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:33:30 +0100 (BST)
Subject: R chek of package VR is broken (PR#1683)
In-Reply-To: <15631.22606.776749.302073@mithrandir.hornik.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0206181731070.18048-100000@gannet.stats>

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Kurt Hornik wrote:

> >>>>> ripley  writes:
>
> > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:00:11PM +0200, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> >> > and the under-qualified pilot applied it to a *binary* installed package,
> >> > despite the emphasized warning.
> >>
> >> I wonder if "R CMD check ... " could abort with an error message if it is
> >> applied to a binary package?
>
> > I am not sure how simple that is.  It used to be hard to tell source
> > and binary packages apart.  What we can do is to test for Built: in
> > the DESCRIPTION file, which will cope with people who have built the
> > package recently.
>
> This was introduced in 1.4 I think (?) so it seems we can change the
> heuristics now to rely on the correspondence Built: <-> binary.  I will
> soon (once I have time again) change INSTALL accordingly.

Not necessarily, as people do manually install packages.  I've added the
test for Built in R CMD check for 1.6.0, which should catch a lot of
misuses.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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R chek of package VR is broken (PR#1683)
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