[Rd] Missing /share/dictionaries/en_stats.rds

[Uwe Ligges]

On 07.01.2013 09:47, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
>>>>>>      on Sun, 6 Jan 2013 17:07:12 -0800 writes:
>
>      > Hi.  I'm on Windows 7 64-bit with latest R devel with and
>      > Rtools (2.16.0.1926).  When I try to enable spell checking
>      > for 'R CMD check' by setting environment variable
>      > '_R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_USE_ASPELL_' to 'true', I get:
>
>      > * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ...Warning in
>      > aspell(files, filter = "dcf", control = control, encoding
>      > = encoding, : The following dictionaries were not found:
>      > en_stats
>
>      > Looking at the source code, I found that I'm missing
>      > 'en_stats.rds', e.g.
>
>      >> Sys.glob(file.path(R.home("share"), "dictionaries", "*.rds"))
>      > character(0)
>
>      > I see that the missing file is in
>      > http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/dictionaries/.  Is
>      > there a reason for why this is not part of the R
>      > source/binaries (e.g.
>      > http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.2.tar.gz)?
>      > Intentional or forgotten?
>
> But it's in the source tarballs of R-devel,
> and you are talking about R-devel, right?
>
> Also, for me (on Linux), it is in there
>
>      >> Sys.glob(file.path(R.home("share"), "dictionaries", "*.rds"))
>
> are you sure you're not just mixing R-2.15.x
> and R-devel ?

No, he is right, since it is not shipped with the Windows installer.
We are working on it (and the other aspell error report).

Best,
Uwe



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