----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Determan" <cdeterma...@gmail.com> > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 11:31:36 AM > Subject: [Rd] example fails during R CMD CHECK but works interactively? > > Greetings, > > I am collaborating with developing the bigmemory package and have run > in to > a strange problem when we run R CMD CHECK. For some reason that > isn't > clear to us one of the examples crashes stating: > > Error: memory could not be allocated for instance of type big.matrix > > You can see the output on the Travis CI page at > https://travis-ci.org/kaneplusplus/bigmemory where the error starts > at line > 1035. This is completely reproducible when running > devtools::check(args='--as-cran') locally. The part that is > confusing is > that the calls work perfectly when called interactively. > > Hadley comments on the 'check' page of his R packages website ( > http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/check.html) regarding test failing following > R CMD > check: > > Occasionally you may have a problem where the tests pass when run > interactively with devtools::test(), but fail when in R CMD check. > This > usually indicates that you’ve made a faulty assumption about the > testing > environment, and it’s often hard to figure it out. > > Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this problem? I have no idea > what > assumption we could have made.
Note that R CMD check runs R with environment variables set as follows (at least on my system; you can check $R_HOME/bin/check to see what it does on yours): R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES= LC_COLLATE=C So try staring R like this: R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES= LC_COLLATE=C R And see if that reproduces the test failure. The locale setting could affect tests of sort order, and the default package setting could potentially affect other things. Dan > > Regards, > Charles > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
