That check needs a (large) file from the internet. Your symptoms would be consistent with it being temporarily unavailable. I would have expected you to look at sas.Rout to see what happened.
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A strange thing happened. After installing the most recent RC version of > 2.7 (2008-04-20 r45403) I compiled it as usual with no errors. After > installing it I ran "make fullcheck". I got as far as testing recommended > packages and I got the following: > > ... > -------- Testing package foreign -------- > Running examples in 'foreign-Ex.R' ... > Comparing `foreign-Ex.Rout' to `foreign-Ex.Rout.prev' ...OK > Running specific tests > Running `S3.R' > Comparing `S3.Rout' to `S3.Rout.save' ...OK > Running `arff.R' > Comparing `arff.Rout' to `arff.Rout.save' ...OK > Running `minitab.R' > Comparing `minitab.Rout' to `minitab.Rout.save' ...OK > Running `octave.R' > Comparing `octave.Rout' to `octave.Rout.save' ...OK > Running `sas.R' > make[2]: *** [sas.Rout] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [tests] Error 2 > make: *** [pkgcheck-foreign] Error 2 > > This also happens when I just run "make check-recommended". > > The thing is that if I start-up the just installed version of R, change > directory to R-rc/src/library/foreign/tests and source the sas.R script, > everything works fine. Also when I do > > Rcmd.exe BATCH sas.R > > things seem to be normal, i.e., I just get the prompt back after a short > while. > > I am on Windows XP professional SP2. My machine is a core-duo Xeon > workstation. > > Hope this helps, > > Andy > > > __________________________________ > Andy Jaworski > 518-1-01 > Process Laboratory > 3M Corporate Research Laboratory > ----- > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (651) 733-6092 > Fax: (651) 736-3122 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
