--- On Fri, 8/4/11, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 7, 2011, at 23:57 , Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > > > > > Oh, I am tracking both R and Matrix via git-svn and > retrieves all revisions to all branches daily (or at least, > regularly). I.e. R svn head. 2.13.0 only forked off > recently and most of the trunk<->2.13.0rc differences > are so far mostly documentation-related. I could switch to > track R 2.13.x branch if you insist. > > > > Please do. It's the branch that is supposed to stabilize > during prerelease times. > > Also, please check the prerelease tarballs, errors in "make > dist" are not caught when building from svn.
Just so that there is no doubt, here is the recipe with the latest rc tar ball, cutting-and-pasting from my command history: wget -m http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-rc_2011-04-07_r55373.tar.gz cd /tmp tar -zxpvf ~/cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-rc_2011-04-07_r55373.tar.gz cd R-rc/ export DEFS='-DUSE_TYPE_CHECKING_STRICT -DR_MEMORY_PROFILING' ; ./configure --enable-memory-profiling --enable-strict-barrier --enable-byte-compiled-packages --with-valgrind-instrumentation=2 ; make cd src/library/ cd Recommended/ ../../../bin/R CMD check --use-gct Matrix_0.999375-49.tar.gz ------------------------------ ... Running examples in ‘Matrix-Ex.R’ failed The error occurred in: R version 2.13.0 RC (2011-04-07 r55373) Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) ... > pkgname <- "Matrix" > source(file.path(R.home("share"), "R", "examples-header.R")) > gctorture(TRUE) > options(warn = 1) > library('Matrix') Loading required package: lattice Error in regexpr("package:", envName, fixed = TRUE) : unprotected object (0x3be2ba8) encountered (was INTSXP) Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Matrix' Execution halted ------------------------- ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel