[Tikzdevice-bugs] [R-Forge] tikzDevice 0.5.1

[Charlie Sharpsteen]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at> wrote:
>
> I checked again: I had the same problem with the old version, and in
> fact, looking at the package check results page at
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_tikzDevice.html you
> will see that we get the same problem on Fedora, Solaris, Windows and
> MacOS X: so I guess there is nothing Debian specific to reproduce.
>
> I'll attach my log file below, perhaps you can spot something or spot
> where you might be using private include files in your case which make
> things work without problems.
>
> I'll put the new version on CRAN for now.
>
> Best
> -k

Hi Kurt,

I never looked into the recent NOTES on the CRAN check; I just assumed
that it referred to the first note:

checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE
queryMetricsDictionary: no visible binding for global variable
‘dictionary’

This has plagued us for a while--- we were never able to find a
resolution in the manuals, the mailing lists or by hacking around.
Consequently, we just accepted there was a NOTE... now it appears
there is more than one.

However, in any case it appears that only the checks run against
prerelease versions are failing.  It looks like this is R 2.13.0 and
2.12.0-alpha or 2.12.0 RC.  Strangely r-prerel-windows-ix86+x86_64 is
passing.  All checks run agains 2.11.1 are passing for 0.5.0.

Looks like there may be changes in 2.12.0+ outside of the addition of
polypath() that we need to worry about.  I will wire up a build of the
release candidate and see if it shows me anything.

-Charlie