R devel - Oct 2004 - R 2.0.0: problem: installing --with-package-versions

Hello R developers,

installing R 2.0.0 from source on a Linux Debian system (gcc 3.2.2)
  - which worked just fine - I encountered the following problem when trying to
update/install packages with the option --with-package-versions:

example: RUnit 0.4.0 (also on CRAN)

R20 CMD INSTALL -l /mnt/local/R/R-2.0.x-libs-EpiR --with-package-versions 
RUnit_0.4.0.tar.gz

or after untaring
R20 CMD INSTALL -l /mnt/local/R/R-2.0.x-libs-EpiR --with-package-versions RUnit

I get
* Installing *source* package 'RUnit' as 'RUnit_0.4.0' ...
** R
** inst
** save image
Error in loadNamespace(package, lib.loc, keep.source, TRUE, TRUE) :
         package 'RUnit' does not have a name space
Execution halted
ERROR: execution of package source for 'RUnit' failed

This happens only with the --with-package-versions option.
I scanned the manual and ?INSTALL but did not find mention of this behaviour.

Any suggestion what I have overlooked or how to cure the failure?


Regards,

   Matthias


 >version
          _
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status
major    2
minor    0.0
year     2004
month    10
day      04
language R

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It seems that if you first install this without --with-package-versions
then with and then remove the first version, it works.

Here is a patch, shortly to appear in R-patched/R-devel:

--- INSTALL.in  (revision 31298)
+++ INSTALL.in  (working copy)
@@ -601,10 +601,10 @@
     ## is no namespace).  Argh.
     ## </NOTE>
     save_image_defaults="list(compress=TRUE, safe=FALSE)"
-    code_file="${R_PACKAGE_DIR}/R/${R_PACKAGE_NAME}"
+    code_file="${R_PACKAGE_DIR}/R/${pkg_name}"
     rda_file="${R_PACKAGE_DIR}/R/all.rda"
     if test -f NAMESPACE; then
-      code_cmd="echo invisible(.libPaths(c(\"${lib}\",
.libPaths())));
.getRequiredPackages(); saveNamespaceImage(\"${pkg_name}\", 
\"${rda_file}\", \"${lib}\")"
+      code_cmd="echo invisible(.libPaths(c(\"${lib}\",
.libPaths())));
.getRequiredPackages(); saveNamespaceImage(\"${R_PACKAGE_NAME}\", 
\"${rda_file}\", \"${lib}\")"
       loader_file=nsrdaload.R
       R_save_args="--vanilla --slave"
     else


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Matthias Burger wrote:
> 
> Hello R developers,
> 
> installing R 2.0.0 from source on a Linux Debian system (gcc 3.2.2)
>   - which worked just fine - I encountered the following problem when
trying to
> update/install packages with the option --with-package-versions:
> 
> example: RUnit 0.4.0 (also on CRAN)
> 
> R20 CMD INSTALL -l /mnt/local/R/R-2.0.x-libs-EpiR --with-package-versions 
> RUnit_0.4.0.tar.gz
> 
> or after untaring
> R20 CMD INSTALL -l /mnt/local/R/R-2.0.x-libs-EpiR --with-package-versions
RUnit
> 
> I get
> * Installing *source* package 'RUnit' as 'RUnit_0.4.0' ...
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** save image
> Error in loadNamespace(package, lib.loc, keep.source, TRUE, TRUE) :
>          package 'RUnit' does not have a name space
> Execution halted
> ERROR: execution of package source for 'RUnit' failed
> 
> This happens only with the --with-package-versions option.
> I scanned the manual and ?INSTALL but did not find mention of this
behaviour.
> 
> Any suggestion what I have overlooked or how to cure the failure?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
>    Matthias
> 
> 
>  >version
>           _
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i686
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major    2
> minor    0.0
> year     2004
> month    10
> day      04
> language R
> 
> 
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