On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:29:24PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > After upgrading to R 2.5.1 on Debian, R CMD check gives > * checking Rd cross-references ... WARNING > Error in .find.package(package, lib.loc) : > there is no package called 'codetools' > Execution halted > * checking for missing documentation entries ... WARNING > etc > > The NEWS file says (for 2.5.0; I was on 2.4 before the recent upgrade) > o New recommended package 'codetools' by Luke Tierney provides > code-analysis tools. This can optionally be used by 'R CMD > check' to detect problems, especially symbols which are not > visible. > > This sounds as if R CMD check should run OK without the package, and it > doesn't seem to. > > Have I misunderstood something, or is their a problem with R CMD check's > handling of the case with missing codetools. > > I don't have codetools installed because the Debian r-recommended > package was missing a dependency; I see that's already been fixed > (wow!).
Yes, there was a transition problem. When R 2.5.0 was released, I was unaware of the need to prepare packages for codetools and rcompgen __early enough so that they would migrate through the NEW queue in Debian__ and hence be available upon the day of the R release. Otherwise a Depends is no good if it can't be fulfilled. So yes, for a while we had an implied Depends, but nothing formal. All this has now been rectified and installing or upgrading r-recommended will get you the new packages as it should. Prior to another R releases with new recommended packages, I should either pay closer attention to the relevant subdirectory in the sources, and hope for a friendly heads-up from R Core (hint, ...) Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
