Re: [Rd] Docker versus Vagrant for reproducability - was: The case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-24 Thread Rainer M Krug
Thanks everybody for their input - interesting suggestions and useful information - thanks. But I am still struggling to use this information. What I got so far: 1) I have decided to try docker [1] 2) Installed docker and boot2docker on a Mac via homebrew and it works 3) I found some Dockerfiles

Re: [Rd] Docker versus Vagrant for reproducability - was: The case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-24 Thread Rainer M Krug
Forgot: My Dockerfiloe is on github: https://github.com/rkrug/R-docker Rainer M Krug writes: > Thanks everybody for their input - interesting suggestions and useful > information - thanks. > > But I am still struggling to use this information. What I got so far: > > 1) I have decided to try do

Re: [Rd] [RFC] A case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-24 Thread Martin Maechler
> Hervé Pagès > on Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:23:57 -0700 writes: > On 03/20/2014 01:28 PM, Ted Byers wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Hervé Pagès >> mailto:hpa...@fhcrc.org>> wrote: >> >> On 03/20/2014 03:52 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> On 14-03-20

[Rd] Timezone warnings on package install in R-alpha

2014-03-24 Thread Jon Clayden
Dear all, As of the current R alpha release, I'm seeing timezone-related warnings on installing any package (including the recommended ones), which I haven't seen before. For example, [~/Documents/Source/R-alpha]$ bin/R CMD INSTALL ~/git/tractor/lib/reportr * installing to library '/Users/jon/Doc

Re: [Rd] "ERROR: installing package indices failed" message when building my package?

2014-03-24 Thread Martin Maechler
> Paul Geeleher > on Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:04:29 -0500 writes: > Hey all, I'm currently trying to build an R package and > don't really know what to make of the error message I'm > getting. I couldn't find anything helpful online so > hopefully somebody here can give me

Re: [Rd] [RFC] A case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-24 Thread Gábor Csárdi
FWIW, I am mirroring CRAN at github now, here: https://github.com/cran One can install specific package versions using the devtools package: library(devtools) install_github("cran/@") In addition, one can also install versions based on the R version, e.g.: install_github("cran/@R-2.15.3") install

Re: [Rd] "ERROR: installing package indices failed" message when building my package?

2014-03-24 Thread Paul Geeleher
Hey Martin, Thanks for your reply. I actually have documentation, but I pasted a version of the output that was created when I removed the .Rd files (as I suspected they may be causing the problem). Here's the output when the man files are all included (its more or less the same): $ R CMD build

Re: [Rd] "ERROR: installing package indices failed" message when building my package?

2014-03-24 Thread Martin Maechler
> Paul Geeleher > on Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:37:57 -0500 writes: > Hey Martin, > Thanks for your reply. I actually have documentation, but I pasted a > version of the output that was created when I removed the .Rd files > (as I suspected they may be causing the problem). H

Re: [Rd] "ERROR: installing package indices failed" message when building my package?

2014-03-24 Thread Paul Geeleher
Hey Martin, The output looks similar: > options(error=recover) > tools:::.build_packages("pRRophetic") * checking for file 'pRRophetic/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'pRRophetic': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * installing the package to build vignettes --

Re: [Rd] "ERROR: installing package indices failed" message when building my package?

2014-03-24 Thread Paul Geeleher
Hey Martin, So by trial and error, I figured out that the reason for this was that there was a text file in the "data/" directory that shouldn't have been there. Thanks for your help! Paul. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Paul Geeleher wrote: > Hey Martin, > > The output looks similar: > > >>

Re: [Rd] Varying results of package checks due to random seed

2014-03-24 Thread Paul Gilbert
On 03/22/2014 01:32 PM, Radford Neal wrote: From: Philippe GROSJEAN ... for latest CRAN version, we have successfully installed 4999 packages among the 5321 CRAN package on our platform. ... It is strange that a large portion of R CMD check errors on CRAN occur and disappear *without any vers