[Rd] Can't start R-devel

[Douglas Bates]

Jeff Gentry <jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu> writes:

> With a new checkout of R-devel, I'm getting the following error on
> startup:
> 
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
> 
> Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message: 
> cannot open compressed file
> `/home/jgentry/R-1.9.0/library/methods/R/all.rda' 
> > search()
> [1]
> ".GlobalEnv"       "package:stats"    "package:graphics" "package:utils"   
> [5] "Autoloads"        "package:base"    
> Warning message: 
> package methods in options("defaultPackages") was not found 
> 
> 
> This is happening on Linux (RH7.2, RH9.0) and Solaris 8.

Try installing into a clean directory.  That is, remove the contents of
/home/jgenty/R-1.9.0 before installing.

Also you may want to check that you have used a delete option in your
rsync update of your sources.  Many directories have been moved
recently and having vestigial copies of some files can be problematic.