[GenABEL-dev] Fwd: Package GenABEL_1.7-0.tar.gz has been built for Windows

[Yurii Aulchenko]

This is really peculiar - packages passing cran checks are usually well -
installable. I do not have a slightest idea what might be we wrong and how
to check that. Did anybody experience similar problem?

Yurii

On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, L.C. Karssen <l.karssen at erasmusmc.nl> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Some extra info on the problem: Today GenABEL v1.7-0 loads without
> problems...
> I guess the problem lies somewhere in zzz.R that checks the version
> numbers. Maybe one or both servers mentioned in the code had a time-out
> or returned garbage.
> Obviously we should monitor this kind of behaviour. A failing version
> check should not inhibit use of GenABEL.
>
>
> Lennart.
>
> On 02-01-12 14:26, L.C. Karssen wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I've run into something peculiar with GenABEL 1.7-0. Some time ago I
>> installed it without problems on one of our servers. Today, when we load
>> the package we get the following error:
>>
>>> library(GenABEL)
>> Loading required package: MASS
>> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'GenABEL', details:
>>   call: stringSplit[[1]]
>>   error: subscript out of bounds
>> Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘GenABEL’
>>
>> This is on Ubuntu Linux 10.04, x64, R 2.14.1.
>>
>> While looking into this today, I tried to install GenABEL from CRAN on
>> another server (CentOS Linux, x64, R 2.13.1) and on my workstation
>> (Ubuntu Linux 11.11, x64, R 2.14.1). Both failed:
>>
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'GenABEL', details:
>>   call: stringSplit[[1]]
>>   error: subscript out of bounds
>> Error: loading failed
>> Execution halted
>> ERROR: loading failed
>> * removing ‘/home/lennart/Programmeren/R/lib/GenABEL’
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>>       ‘/tmp/RtmpraRfqM/downloaded_packages’
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("GenABEL") :
>>   installation of package ‘GenABEL’ had non-zero exit status
>>
>>
>> Any idea what is going on here? Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
>>
>>
>>
>> Lennart.
>>
>>
>> On 23-12-11 12:06, GenABEL project wrote:
>>> FYI
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: ** <Uwe.Ligges at r-project.org <mailto:Uwe.Ligges at r-project.org>>
>>> Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:52 AM
>>> Subject: Package GenABEL_1.7-0.tar.gz has been built for Windows
>>> To: genabel.project at gmail.com <mailto:genabel.project at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Uwe.Ligges at r-project.org <mailto:Uwe.Ligges at r-project.org>,
>>> olafm at kimberly.tako.de <mailto:olafm at kimberly.tako.de>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear package maintainer,
>>>
>>> this notification has been generated automatically.
>>> Your package GenABEL_1.7-0.tar.gz has been built for Windows and
>>> will be published within 24 hours in the corresponding CRAN directory
>>> (CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.14/).
>>> R version 2.14.1 RC (2011-12-19 r57939)
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Uwe Ligges
>>> (Maintainer of binary packages for Windows)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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