Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-10 Thread Martin Maechler
> Duncan Murdoch > on Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:22:09 -0500 writes: > On 05/11/2014 9:36 AM, Peter Simons wrote: >> Hi Duncan, >> >> > I don't think we should be removing tests for everybody to allow a few >> > people to test a build of R that none of us actually use.

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 05/11/2014 9:36 AM, Peter Simons wrote: Hi Duncan, > I don't think we should be removing tests for everybody to allow a few > people to test a build of R that none of us actually use. no tests need to be removed. My response was to Martin, who proposed exactly that. All that needs

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-05 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Duncan, > I don't think we should be removing tests for everybody to allow a few > people to test a build of R that none of us actually use. no tests need to be removed. All that needs to be done is to distinguish tests that require the recommended packages from those that don't. Then users

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-05 Thread peter dalgaard
On 05 Nov 2014, at 13:12 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > I don't think we should be removing tests for everybody to allow a few > people to test a build of R that none of us actually use. Yes. Having R pass "make check" while breaking recommended packages would be unfortunate. I wouldn't object t

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 05/11/2014, 6:48 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: >> Duncan Murdoch >> on Mon, 3 Nov 2014 06:28:19 -0500 writes: > > > On 03/11/2014, 4:17 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: > >>> Duncan Murdoch > >>> on Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:17:56 -0400 writes: > >> > >> > On 01/11/20

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-05 Thread Martin Maechler
> Duncan Murdoch > on Mon, 3 Nov 2014 06:28:19 -0500 writes: > On 03/11/2014, 4:17 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: >>> Duncan Murdoch >>> on Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:17:56 -0400 writes: >> >> > On 01/11/2014, 11:33 AM, Peter Simons wrote: >> >> Hi Uwe, >> >>

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/11/2014, 4:17 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: >> Duncan Murdoch >> on Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:17:56 -0400 writes: > > > On 01/11/2014, 11:33 AM, Peter Simons wrote: > >> Hi Uwe, > >> > >> > Nobody in R core runs NixOS and can reproduce > >> this. This passes on most >

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-03 Thread Martin Maechler
> Duncan Murdoch > on Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:17:56 -0400 writes: > On 01/11/2014, 11:33 AM, Peter Simons wrote: >> Hi Uwe, >> >> > Nobody in R core runs NixOS and can reproduce >> this. This passes on most > other platforms, >> apparently. If you can point us to a

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2014, 2:58 PM, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > >> have tried running the test suite in a build that's configured with > >> '--without-recommended-packages'? > > > > Of course this fails in the case when we check for the recommended > packages: > > > > | < character(0) > > |

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-01 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Uwe, >> have tried running the test suite in a build that's configured with >> '--without-recommended-packages'? > > Of course this fails in the case when we check for the recommended packages: > > | < character(0) > | --- > | > [1] "Matrix" "nlme" "mgcv" > > If Matrix et al a

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 01.11.2014 16:33, Peter Simons wrote: Hi Uwe, > Nobody in R core runs NixOS and can reproduce this. This passes on most > other platforms, apparently. If you can point us to a problem or send > patches, we'd appreciate it. have tried running the test suite in a build that's configure

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2014, 11:33 AM, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > > Nobody in R core runs NixOS and can reproduce this. This passes on most > > other platforms, apparently. If you can point us to a problem or send > > patches, we'd appreciate it. > > have tried running the test suite in a build that'

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-01 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Uwe, > Nobody in R core runs NixOS and can reproduce this. This passes on most > other platforms, apparently. If you can point us to a problem or send > patches, we'd appreciate it. have tried running the test suite in a build that's configured with '--without-recommended-packages'? That's

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
Nobody in R core runs NixOS and can reproduce this. This passes on most other platforms, apparently. If you can point us to a problem or send patches, we'd appreciate it. Best, Uwe Ligges On 01.11.2014 13:30, Peter Simons wrote: Hi, I maintain the R packages in the NixOS Linux distribution

[Rd] R 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 both fail their test suites

2014-11-01 Thread Peter Simons
Hi, I maintain the R packages in the NixOS Linux distribution [1]. A while ago, I attempted to update to version 3.1.1, but I ran into the following test suite failure: | Testing examples for package 'tools' | comparing 'tools-Ex.Rout' to 'tools-Ex.Rout.save' ... | 452c452 | < character(0)