R devel - Feb 2008 - R CMD check for glmpath on Windows (PR#10823)

The problem first appeared in R 2.6.1 and is still there in R 2.6.2

On Windows running R CMD check command for glmpath package fails. The reason
seems to be that when R is running the examples file (glmpath-Ex.R), it skips
about 50 lines and as a result gives a syntax error. 

I'm working with a modified version of the CRAN glmpath 0.94. My version
happens to give a more clear example of a problem than the original one. 


Lines 86-89 of glmpath-Ex.R:
bootstrap.a <- bootstrap.path(heart.data$x, heart.data$y,
  B=10, method="bic")
## End Don't show
bootstrap.a

Lines 130-133 of glmpath-Ex.R:
### Name: cv.coxpath
### Title: Computes cross-validated (minus) log-partial-likelihoods for
###   coxpath
### Aliases: cv.coxpath


The end of glmpath-Ex.Rout:
> bootstrap.a <- bootstrap.path(heart.data$x, heart.data$y,
+   B=10, method="bic")
> al-likelihoods for
Error: unexpected 'for' in "al-likelihoods for"

Execution halted



I've contacted Mee Young who replied: "It failed for some obscure
reasons,
but CRAN admins thought that the issue was Fortran's I/O interfering with C.
However, the glmpath windows binary from any earlier version of R works
under the current version of R."


We've never observed this problem on LINUX.


--please do not edit the information below--

Version:
 platform = i386-pc-mingw32
 arch = i386
 os = mingw32
 system = i386, mingw32
 status = 
 major = 2
 minor = 6.1
 year = 2007
 month = 11
 day = 26
 svn rev = 43537
 language = R
 version.string = R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)

Windows XP (build 2600) Service Pack 2.0

Locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices,
package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base