[Rd] "note: symbols.rds is not available"

2012-03-13 Thread Ben Bolker
I've encountered this note in checking packages with the latest R-devel. Googling finds it only in other package checks; searching the source tree finds in src/library/tools/R/sotools.R , but I'm not sure what it's doing there. 'symbols.rds' shows up in the SVN log here: r58591 | ripley | 201

Re: [Rd] "note: symbols.rds is not available"

2012-03-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
This is used for checking unsave symbols in compiled code (such as abort, exit or printf calls). For some reason you could not generate the symbols and hence a note. Therefore, this does not indicate a problem with the package. Uwe Ligges On 13.03.2012 17:52, Ben Bolker wrote: I've enco

[Rd] 111 FIXMEs in main/src

2012-03-13 Thread Matthew Dowle
Hi, We sometimes see offers to contribute, asking what needs to be done. If they know C, how about the 111 FIXMEs? But which ones would be most useful to fix? Which are difficult and which are easy? Does R-core have a process to list and prioritise the FIXMEs? ~/R/Rtrunk/src/main$ grep "[^/]FIXME