R SIG Debian - Oct 2013 - possible Sweave problem in rdevel build on Debian 6.0.8?

Dear R-sig-debian,

As of last night, we are running into a build failure when trying to
compile the development version of R from the svn repository, Revision:
64090:

./configure && make -j4 distclean && ./configure && make
-j4

[lots of normal compile output not shown...]

building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
processing 'Sweave.Rnw'
Error: running Sweave on vignette
'/net/home/rpackagebuilder/src/R.trunk/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'

failed with message:
<text>:1:1: unexpected '|'
1: |
      ^
Execution halted
make[1]: *** [vignettes-lattice] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/net/home/rpackagebuilder/src/R.trunk/src/library'
make: *** [vignettes] Error 2


The same vignette compiles without error on the same machine using the
stable release version of R.  Does anyone have suggestions on how I
might debug this further to determine if this is an issue with Sweave,
the vignette, or our system configuration?

thanks for your help,
   -skye

On 21 October 2013 at 17:00, Skye Bender-deMoll wrote:
| As of last night, we are running into a build failure when trying to
| compile the development version of R from the svn repository, Revision:
| 64090:
| 
| ./configure && make -j4 distclean && ./configure &&
make -j4
| 
| [lots of normal compile output not shown...]
| 
| building/updating vignettes for package 'utils' ...
| processing 'Sweave.Rnw'
| Error: running Sweave on vignette
|
'/net/home/rpackagebuilder/src/R.trunk/src/library/utils/vignettes/Sweave.Rnw'
| 
| failed with message:
| <text>:1:1: unexpected '|'
| 1: |
|       ^
| Execution halted
| make[1]: *** [vignettes-lattice] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory
| `/net/home/rpackagebuilder/src/R.trunk/src/library'
| make: *** [vignettes] Error 2
| 
| 
| The same vignette compiles without error on the same machine using the
| stable release version of R.  Does anyone have suggestions on how I
| might debug this further to determine if this is an issue with Sweave,
| the vignette, or our system configuration?

This strikes me as an issue for, at best, r-devel. SVN snapshots of R _are
unreleased_ software without implied guaranty. That said, I too build R from
SVN about once a week, but I have not had issues in years. And I just did an
'svn up' followed by my build script, and all is still well:

edd at max:~$ bin/R-devel.sh 

R Under development (unstable) (2013-10-21 r64091) -- "Unsuffered
Consequences"
Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
[....]

Using Ubuntu 13.04, current. Also using MAKE="make -j4" -- so I think
you
need to do so some debugging at your end.

Dirk

-- 
Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com