[Rd] Lubuntu 13.04 raring ringtail: Problems installing pnmath_0.0-4

[luke-tierney at uiowa.edu]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> AFAIK pnmath is not a package on a public repository, and it seems it is 
> using R internals not part of the API and not exposed in R 3.0.0.
>
> I presume you got this from ~luke/R/experimental ... the clue is in the 
> directory name.  My understanding was that this would eventually be merged 
> into R rather than released as a package.

The intent is t merge it eventually; until that happens the intent is
to keep it working as an experimental package.  It is experimental,
and it's math code has not been updated to reflect improvements in the
R library, so should be used with caution.

>
> If you really want to use it you will need to modify the R sources to unhide 
> PRIMFUN and SET_PRIMFUN and re-compile.

These are now no longer hidden in R-devel and R-patched, so should be
available in the next R release.

Best,

luke

>
>
> On 26/04/2013 19:39, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
>> Hola!
>> 
>> This is 64bit Lubuntu 13.04, with R-3.0.0 installed from
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter/ubuntu raring  main
>> via synaptic.  gcc --version
>> gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1) 4.7.3
>> 
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> 
>> locale:
>>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>   [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> 
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] MASS_7.3-26
>> 
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] compiler_3.0.0 fortunes_1.5-0 tools_3.0.0
>>> 
>> I am trying to install pnmath from the commandline (outside R), this is
>> what happens:
>> kjetil at kjetil-HP-Pavilion-dv4-Notebook-PC:~/R/src$ sudo  R CMD INSTALL
>> pnmath_0.0-4.tar.gz
>> * installing to library ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
>> * installing *source* package ‘pnmath’ ...
>> ** libs
>> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG     -fopenmp -fpic  -O2
>> -pipe -g  -c bd0.c -o bd0.o
>> ...
>> ...
>> ...
>> installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/pnmath/libs
>> ** R
>> ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
>> ** help
>> *** installing help indices
>> ** building package indices
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>    unable to load shared object
>> '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/pnmath/libs/pnmath.so':
>>    /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/pnmath/libs/pnmath.so: undefined symbol:
>> PRIMFUN
>> Error: loading failed
>> Execution halted
>> ERROR: loading failed
>> * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/pnmath’
>> 
>> I have installed sufficient libraries as to compile R itself from source
>> without problems!
>> 
>> Kjetil
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