Dear Prof. Ripley:
Thanks for the suggestion. I've used some of those diagnostics,
and I think I knew that I could run "R CMD install --build" without
having passed "R CMD check", but I hadn't done it before and didn't
think of it. I will remember it for the future.
Best Wishes,
Spencer
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Please note that the assmuption is that you can install a pacakge
before you check it.
R CMD INSTALL often gives fuller diagnostics: I am not sure these
would have helped you here, but I would have expected you to have got
a 'syntax error' message (which is not 'cryptic': you did have syntax
errors in your files).
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Spencer Graves wrote:
Dear Duncan: <in line>
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 01/11/2008 8:53 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
Dear Ted:
Thanks very much. In fact, I did have a file named "Copy of
create.fourier.basis.R". I deleted it and got an even more cryptic
version of the same error message. I ultimately traced this to
lines like "<<<<<<< .working" inserted by subversion into a *.R or
*.Rd file I was using. I found this by finding a previous
"*.tar.gz" file that passed "R CMD check", studying the subversion
log of 7 different changes made by 3 people since that one that
worked, and reviewing changes made to at least 13 different files
in that period until I found the problem.
Hi Spencer.
If you're using Windows, I really recommend using TortoiseSVN.
It'll make it very easy to see conflict markers like the one that
caused your trouble. (I don't like their compare utility, but it's
easy to plug in a different one. I use Beyond Compare.)
I've been using TortoiseSVN for roughly 18 months now, but I had
previously not used much of its capabilities. The log and diff files
helped narrow the problem from someplace in 400 files to someplace in
13.
It would be nice if the "R CMD check" diagnostics were more clear
about things like this. However, even with these problems, it is
vastly superior to the anarchy that organizes the software
development efforts of many people I know. I have friends and
colleagues developing software in other languages with NOTHING like
this, asking me to check their work. I'm refining lectures on the
virtues of "R CMD check" and pushing others adopt something similar
for perl scripts, Matlab code, etc. I'm eager to help develop such
systems, and I resist efforts to have me repeat tests I developed
months ago and should be automated.
Thanks for your reply -- and for your very valuable work in
helping to develop the current "R CMD check" system.
Best Wishes,
Spencer
If you're not on Windows, there are probably similar things
available, but I don't know what they are.
Duncan Murdoch
Best Wishes,
Spencer
(Ted Harding) wrote:
Just guessing here, but it looks as though an attempt has been made
to execute the following command:
cat ./R/Copy of create.fourier.basis.R
This may have arisen because there is indeed a file named
"Copy of create.fourier.basis.R"
but the command was issued to the OS without quotes; or (perhaps
less likely, because of the presence of the "./R/") the line
"Copy of create.fourier.basis.R"
was intended as a comment in the file, but somehow got read as
a substantive part of the code.
Good luck!
Ted.
On 01-Nov-08 15:40:33, Spencer Graves wrote:
Hello:
What do you recommend I do to get past cryptic error messages
from "R CMD check", complaining "No such file or directory"? The
package is
under SVN control, and I reverted to a version that passed "R CMD
check", without eliminating the error. The "00install.out" file
is short and bitter:
cat: ./R/Copy: No such file or directory
cat: of: No such file or directory
cat: create.fourier.basis.R: No such file or directory
make: *** [Rcode0] Error 1
---------- Making package fda ------------
adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
installing NAMESPACE file and metadata
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `R/Copy', needed by
`D:/spencerg/statmtds/splines/fda/RForge/fda/fda.Rcheck/fda/R/fda'.
Stop.
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [pkg-fda] Error 2
*** Installation of fda failed ***
Removing
'D:/spencerg/statmtds/splines/fda/RForge/fda/fda.Rcheck/fda'
Thanks for any suggestions. I have a "*.tar.gz" file
that I hope
may not have this problem, but I'm not sure.
Thanks,
Spencer
______________________________________________
R-devel@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
--------------------------------------------------------------------
E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861
Date: 01-Nov-08 Time: 16:19:56
------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
______________________________________________
R-devel@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
______________________________________________
R-devel@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
______________________________________________
R-devel@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
