[R] make check when installing R-1.6.0

[Jonathan Rougier]

ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jonathan Rougier wrote:
> 
> > Brian O'Gorman wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the result of my make check,  could anyone help me out on this
> > > one?
> > >
> > >      Formats: text example
> > > running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...*** Error code 1
> > > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `base-Ex.Rout'
> > > Current working directory /apps/R/R-1.6.0/tests/Examples
> > > *** Error code 1
> > > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test-Examples-Base'
> > > Current working directory /apps/R/R-1.6.0/tests/Examples
> > > *** Error code 1
> > > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test-Examples'
> > > Current working directory /apps/R/R-1.6.0/tests
> > > *** Error code 1
> > > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test-all-basics'
> > > Current working directory /apps/R/R-1.6.0/tests
> > > *** Error code 1
> > > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `check'
> >
> > You want to check the file "${R_HOME}/test/Examples/base-Ex.Rout"
> > but my guess would be that you are picking up an old version of MASS.
> 
> Pretty unlikely: MASS ships with 1.6.0 and the test is run with --vanilla
> so no other library directory is used (unless you have R_LIBS set in the
> environment, not a good idea).  So why pick on MASS?

Hi Brian,

It's what happened to me!  We have a common library on our network that
contained a very old version of MASS, and it is specified in the R_LIBS
variable.  After installing R-1.6.0 I arranged in my .Rprofile to
exchange the order of common/lib/R and ${R_HOME}/library in my search
list but, as you point out, this didn't allow me to run "make check"
without getting caught up with the old version of MASS.

Cheers, Jonathan.

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