On 27.02.2010 03:27, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
G'day Uwe,

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:03:10 +0100
Uwe Ligges<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>  wrote:

R CMD check executes the R code in the vignettes and checks if that
works, and it checks if the PDFs are available. It does not check if
it can build the vignettes, because that is only necessary on the
maintainer's machine since the PDFs are shipped with the (built)
source package.

Are you implying that "R CMD check" has reverted to its pre-2.6.0
behaviour?  If I remember correctly, for R versions before 2.6.0  "R
CMD check" did not attempt to build the vignette, with version 2.6.0 it
started to do so.  The relvant NEWS entry is:

     o  R CMD check now (by default) attempts to latex the
     vignettes rather than just weave and tangle them: this will give a
     NOTE if there are latex errors.


Ah, thanks for the correction, Berwin. I am living in the past, obviously.

Uwe




Cheers,

        Berwin

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