[Rd] Installation problem from R 2.8.x

[Uwe Ligges]

What you call a bug in R has never been reported since R-2.8.0 was 
recent. Hence I guess it is a permission issue on your system.
Or do you think nobody else tried to install a package during the last 
12 months?

Uwe Ligges


zong-pei.han at imm.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> Dear Developers,
> 
> Since 2.8, R installation has got a bug in it such
> that if a package has a "configure" file then it
> cannot be installed without modification.
> 
> For example:
> 
> * Installing *source* package 'foreign' ...
> ERROR: 'configure' exists but is not executable --
> see the 'R Installation and Adminstration Manual'
> * Removing '/usr/local/source_code/Linux/R/R-2.9.2/library/foreign'
> make[2]: *** [foreign.ts] Error 1
> 
> In fact, 'configure' is executable!!! So I have to manually
> run 'configure', remove 'configure', and then repackage
> foreign_0.8-37.tar.gz so it can be installed.
> 
> This bug makes it very time consuming to add any package
> which has a 'configure' in it. And the bug seems to be
> in  src/library/tools/R/install.R
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dr Zong-Pei Han
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> Computational Biology Research Group
> University of Oxford
> http://www.cbrg.ox.ac.uk/
> 
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