[datatable-help] Building data.table 1.8.9 from sources fails

[Victor Kryukov]

Hello,

when I'm trying to build freshly cloned data.table 1.8.9 from source via
either 'R CMD build .' in pkg/ directory or calling devtools build(), it
fails with the following error. I don't really understand what's going on,
as in lines 16-17 in datatable-faq.Rnw we have

if (!exists("data.table",.GlobalEnv)) library(data.table)  # see Intro.Rnw
for comments on these two lines
rm(list=as.character(tables()$NAME),envir=.GlobalEnv)

and first line should load data.table if not loaded. Even when I load it
explicitly in line 16 via library(data.table), i.e. removing if(), it fails
with the same error.

Any ideas why?

'R CMD check .' finishes without any problems. My systemInfo() is below
just in case.

Regards,
Victor

====

> build()
'/usr/local/Cellar/r/2.15.3/R.framework/Resources/bin/R' --vanilla CMD
build '/Users/victor/Documents/R/datatable/pkg' --no-manual
--no-resave-data

* checking for file '/Users/victor/Documents/R/datatable/pkg/DESCRIPTION'
... OK
* preparing 'data.table':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* cleaning src
* installing the package to re-build vignettes
* creating vignettes ... ERROR

Error: processing vignette 'datatable-faq.Rnw' failed with diagnostics:
 chunk 1
Error in rm(list = as.character(tables()$NAME), envir = .GlobalEnv) :
  could not find function "tables"
Execution halted
Error: Command failed (1)

====

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.3 (2013-03-01)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.1 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
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