[Rd] Installing R-1.1.0 (PR#612)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

Berwin,

i686-pc-linux-gnu is a widely used and tested platform for R, and
we know that 1.1.0 and the latest patched version both pass `make check'
on a Debian distribution (2.2?) and RedHat 6.0 and (RedHat 6.2
with gcc-2.95.2) and various others.

This suggests that the problem is specific to your Linux installation,
so can you give us more details please?

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 berwin@maths.uwa.edu.au wrote:

> Dear R-developers,
> 
> I finally got around to install R 1.1.0 but had problems at the `make
> check' stage.
> 
> After compiling the released R 1.1.0 version the `make check' stage
> stopped while checking the examples in base.  There was some problem
> with the quantile function and the check stopped complaining that NA's
> are not allowed.
> 
> But I assume that this problem is already known because `make check'
> passed this point after I applied the latest patches and recompiled
> R.  However `make check' still chokes on base and on mva.  The last
> lines in base-Ex.Rout are:
> 
> > x <- 0:15
> > size <- (1:20)/4
> > persp(x,size, dnb <- outer(x,size,function(x,s)dnbinom(x,s, pr= 0.4)),
> +       xlab = "x", ylab = "s", zlab="density", theta = 150)
> > title(tit <- "negative binomial density(x,s, pr = 0.4)  vs.  x & s")
> > 
> > image  (x,size, log10(dnb), main= paste("log [",tit,"]"))
> Error in hsv(h, s, v, gamma) : invalid HSV color
> Execution halted
> 
> And the last lines in mva-Ex.Rout are:
> 
> > prcomp(USArrests, scale = TRUE)
> Standard deviations:
> [1] 1.5748783 0.9948694 0.5971291 0.4164494
> 
> Rotation:
>                 PC1        PC2        PC3         PC4
> Murder   -0.5358995 -0.4181809  0.3412327 -0.64922780
> Assault  -0.5831836 -0.1879856  0.2681484  0.74340748
> UrbanPop -0.2781909  0.8728062  0.3780158 -0.13387773
> Rape     -0.5434321  0.1673186 -0.8177779 -0.08902432
> > plot(prcomp(USArrests))
> Error in hsv(h, s, v, gamma) : invalid HSV color
> Execution halted
> 
> Any idea how I could get around this problem?  I presume that this
> problem has to do with the number of available colors?  (For me, HSV
> means "Hamburger Sport Verein", a German soccer club ;-)) ). 

Look at ?hsv for the interpretation.  As I understand it hsv is a variant
on hsb.

Brian

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