R-beta: R-0.62 is released

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> writes:

> 
> On 14-Jun-98 Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> > I've put up R-0.62.0.tgz up for FTP from Auckland some minutes ago.
> > As usual, don't get it from there unless you are desperate, but wait
> > for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you within a day or two.
> 
> You didn't expect us to be THAT patient, did you?!
> 

Heh. But it serves you right when you realise the mistake that I made
in it. ("tests" directory gone AWOL, 0.62.1 due out shortly)

And seriously: Auckland is paying through its nose per MB for
Internet, irrespective of direction, so please use CRAN whenever
possible. For the not-quite-so impatient, the Austrian CRAN site will
pick it up some time during the night.

(Of course, ONE impatient user is not a problem, but...)

>    Despite trying every obvious config option, the "R" script had insisted
>    on setting RHOME as the directory it was compiled from: /depot/R-0.62/R-0.62/
> 
>    It took some time to suss out that this needed to be edited to read
>    RHOME=/usr/local/R-0.62/lib/R
> 
>    After this was done, it seems fine. The above is NOT obvious from the INSTALL
>    document.

That might be because it shouldn't happen. For me:

$ more /usr/local/bin/R
#!/bin/sh
# Shell wrapper for R executable.

RHOME=/usr/local/lib/R
export RHOME
...

Even though I compiled out of ~pd/R-official/R-0.62 .  Are you sure
you are picking up the correct R script? 

> 
> 2. The "help" browser seems to be hard-wired to be netscape. This can of course

No comment on this.

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