On 26 July 2015 at 18:49, [email protected] wrote: | Dear R-SIG-Debian team, | | I have installed R3.2.1 as described at cran.r-project.org | on my Ubuntu 14.04 using the Ubuntu packages for R (r-base and | r-base-dev) from the package URL | | deb http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/ | | I wanted to test the installation using the R commands: | | Sys.setenv(LC_COLLATE = "C", LANGUAGE = "en") | library("tools") | testInstalledBasic("both") | | "testInstalledBasic()" failed with the error message: | | Error in setwd(file.path(R.home(), "tests")) : | cannot change working directory | | "R.home()" results in | | [1] "/usr/lib/R" | | I looked into this folder and could not find test sub folder "tests" | where the base tests are supposed to be stored. | | My questions: | | 1. Can you please confirm that the "tests" sub folder is no part of the | packages? Otherwise I have to diagnose an installation problem on | my computer... | | 2. What is the reason for not installing the tests (I am just curious)? | | 3. If the tests are useful: How can I install them manually? | Since I install the binary package and do not build from the source | I cannot call "make install-tests" as proposed in the | "R Installation and Administration" in | | https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Testing-a-Unix_002dalike-Installation
You may need to work from sources for this. I can look into this, time permitting, when I next overhault / extend the Debian packaging. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
