Thank you Dan but it isn't my tests that are failing (all of them pass without problem) but one of the examples from the inst/examples directory. I did try, however, to start R with the environmental variables as you suggest but it had no effect on my tests.
Charles On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fredhutch.org> wrote: > > > ----- 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 > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
