After an install of R (3.2.0-r1), the following functions do not work, as either root or mere user: * contributors * license or licence * ?? For the first two, it's very minor. But the third one prevents getting some form of help (non-trivial problem!), including the search form in the browser, from help.start(). When calling those, it issues the message (this example: `??`) Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In file(con, "r") : cannot open file '/usr/share/doc/R-3.2.0-r1/KEYWORDS.db': No such file or directory Solution: cd /usr/share/doc/R-3.2.0-r1/ rename '.bz2' '' *.bz2 The files are (and remain after this) bzip2 compressed, but even so a text editor (vim) can open them without binary fuss, and so does R. Not sure if there is a need to use bzcat on this. Is this problem from ebuild or upstream? That's not the kind of thing one would have to take care of after installing. Package: dev-lang/R-3.2.0-r1 ~amd64 System: stable amd64 (this is the only ~arch on it). This is the latest R available in the tree. I don't know if previous ones (unstable) have the same behavior. What about the latest stable? It's 3 years old. I don't care!
I tested on the same machine the previous release, ~3.1.2, and this problem did not appear. I remerged 3.2.0-r1, and the problem was repeated. Also, I mentioned above license/licence, but that does not seem concerned by this actually. Then I tried to replicate on another Gentoo install (pretty much identical except a few x86 cpu flags, a few days of differences in terms of updates) I merged =dev-lang/R-3.2.0-r1, and the problem is there too.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=de035788fb8ceddd4a7b3fd038537f2e530009f1 commit de035788fb8ceddd4a7b3fd038537f2e530009f1 Author: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-04-17 23:23:38 +0000 Commit: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-04-18 01:31:10 +0000 dev-lang/R: new revision that leaves more docs uncompressed. The R interactive shell encourages users to read several documentation files using functions like contributors() and RShowDoc() that rely on the files being installed with their god-given names. This new revision tries to fix a few of the more common ones with docompress -x. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/556706 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.89, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> dev-lang/R/{R-3.6.3.ebuild => R-3.6.3-r1.ebuild} | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
