On 08/10/2013 2:34 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:> Just thought I would mention that the issue below (and in
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-April/066318.html) is still not
resolved.
The bug reporting system is back up, so if you haven't filed a bug
report on this, please do.
If you have filed a bug report on it that doesn't include instructions
to reproduce it, please add them. Intermittent non-reproducible bugs
are unlikely to be fixed.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> It hasn't been a big problem, but it potentially could be, if a
critical package were to have this error on release day, then all its
dependencies would fail to build, which would probably require us to postpone
our release.
>
> See the complete thread (link above) for followup posts which establish
that this has nothing to do with databases, sockets, or virus scanners, and
occurs even in packages that have no dependencies or R code in them. The post
below from Henrik points to a possible cause.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at
biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
> > <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Dan,
> >>
> >> This error looks _very_ similar to what I reported regarding the
use of
> >> 'foreach' inside a windows vignette, on the bioc-devel
email list. As you
> >> say, it looks funny that it lists the tex file, yet fails to find
it.
> >
> > It's not looking for the TeX file, but the PDF file - that is what
the
> > error message is referring to by "Failed to locate the
'texi2pdf'
> > output file". [ Note that in this error message I use the term
> > "vignette" in a conceptual sense, not necessarily the
vignette
> > *source* file (here *.Rnw) - maybe that is what is confusing. ]
> > Immediately after calling
tools::texi2pdf("OrganismDbi.tex"), the code
> > tries to locate the texi2pdf output file, that is,
'OrganismDbi.pdf',
> > which it cannot find. This indicates that tools::texi2pdf() gave an
> > error (an error message which is currently not reported/available),
> > which in turn indicates that the 'OrganismDbi.tex' file is
> > corrupt/incomplete.
> >
> >>
> >> The issue had to do with closing relevant connections (for
foreach, this
> >> was a Windows issue because the default foreach backend on Windows
uses
> >> connections). For my particular case, solving it was a bit
difficult
> >> because I could not just close all connections since a vignette is
being
> >> run inside sink().
> >>
> >> The package name makes me suspect a database connection. As a
starting
> >> point I suggest closing all existing connections in the vignette.
> >
> > I think it's worth looking into what Kasper says - that's
hopefully the reason.
> >
> > /Henrik
> >
> > PS. I do find it odd that these issues starting to occur now, because
> > most of the vignette framework is performing the same steps as in R
(<
> > 3.0.0). The main difference is see is that it now validates/asserts
> > that the expected output file is there *immediately* after trying to
> > generate them (using weave, tangle, and texi2pdf). If for some reason
> > texi2pdf generates the PDF in a background process which is not
> > completed in full when returning the control to R, then the PDF is not
> > there and you would get this error. I don't know if this can
happen.
> > The reason why I came to think of this is because I recall that
I've
> > seen this behavior when using bitmap() and Ghostscript to create PNGs.
> > Just a shot from the hip, though.
> >
> >>
> >> Kasper
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at
fhcrc.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> Every day a few Bioconductor packages (different ones each
day) fail
> >>> to build, on Windows only, with an error like this:
> >>>
> >>>
D:\biocbld\bbs-2.13-bioc\meat>D:\biocbld\bbs-2.13-bioc\R\bin\R.exe CMD
> >>> build --keep-empty-dirs --no-resave-data OrganismDbi
> >>> [...]
> >>> Error in find_vignette_product(name, by =
"texi2pdf", engine = engine) :
> >>> Failed to locate the 'texi2pdf' output file (by
engine
> >>> 'utils::Sweave') for vignette with name
'OrganismDbi'. The following
> >>> files exists in directory '.':
'OrganismDbi.Rnw', 'OrganismDbi.tex',
> >>> 'databaseTypes.pdf'
> >>> Calls: <Anonymous> -> find_vignette_product
> >>> Execution halted
> >>>
> >>> This is puzzling to me because I would have thought that
> >>> 'OrganismDbi.tex' was the file it was looking for, yet
it says that
> >>> file exists.
> >>>
> >>> These build errors are transient...if I re-run the build, the
error
> >>> does not recur. So I was hesitant to report the problem
because can't
> >>> be reproduced consistently. Nevertheless it is a problem.
> >>>
> >>> > sessionInfo()
> >>> R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
> >>> Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> >>>
> >>> locale:
> >>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> >>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> >>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> >>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> >>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> >>>
> >>> attached base packages:
> >>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
base
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Dan
> >>>
>
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