Re: [Rd] reg-tests-1.R failure with unstable

2009-10-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I have committed a workaround that works with bsdtar under Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) for me. We have seen rather too many problems with incompatibility of tar formats recently (and it is documented to be ASCII only and has restrictions to 100 bytes for file paths), so have alternatives under

Re: [Rd] reg-tests-1.R failure with unstable

2009-10-25 Thread Hiroyuki Kawakatsu
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [...] > Seems this is a bug in the tar program on your OS: this should be > '755(nul)' in the 8 bytes 101:108. And that's in every account of the > tar format I have found, including the former POSIX standard. > > (Note to Peter D: we don't use get

Re: [Rd] reg-tests-1.R failure with unstable

2009-10-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009, Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote: Hi, I am getting an error from one of the test files tests/reg-tests-1.R using the unstable version (r50179). (i've learned my lessons; this is a clean build.) The tail of reg-tests-1.Rout.fail is L

Re: [Rd] reg-tests-1.R failure with unstable

2009-10-25 Thread Hiroyuki Kawakatsu
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: [...] >> >> I think I have tracked this down to the following line in utils:::untar2() >>        mode <- rawToChar(block[101:107]) >> mode contains a trailing space as in "000755 " which causes the invalid >> digits error in as.octmode(). If I

Re: [Rd] reg-tests-1.R failure with unstable

2009-10-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009, Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote: Hi, I am getting an error from one of the test files tests/reg-tests-1.R using the unstable version (r50179). (i've learned my lessons; this is a clean build.) The tail of reg-tests-1.Rout.fail is Loading required packag

Re: [Rd] reg-tests-1.R failure with unstable

2009-10-25 Thread Hiroyuki Kawakatsu
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009, Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting an error from one of the test files > tests/reg-tests-1.R using the unstable version (r50179). > (i've learned my lessons; this is a clean build.) The tail > of reg-tests-1.Rout.fail is > > Loading required package: myTst > buil