Dear R-devel,

I'm trying to get practice learning more about the internals of R so am
experimenting with the development version. I successfully cloned the SVN
repo and built and installed R. I am using 2014-01-23 r64861.

However, I cannot seem to install the lattice package. I tried within R
using install.packages and got the error
sh: 1: 1: not found

I then downloaded the tar.gz and tried it as follows:
$ sudo R CMD INSTALL lattice_0.20-24.tar.gz

* installing to library ‘/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1’
* installing *source* package ‘lattice’ ...
** package ‘lattice’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
sh: 1: 1: not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lattice’
* removing ‘/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/lattice’

I then looked at the help for R CMD INSTALL and saw debug flag so I did:
$ sudo R CMD INSTALL -d lattice_0.20-24.tar.gz
processing ‘lattice_0.20-24.tar.gz’
a file
* installing to library ‘/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1’
* build_help_types=
* DBG: 'R CMD INSTALL' now doing do_install()
* created lock directory
‘/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/00LOCK-lattice’
* installing *source* package ‘lattice’ ...
** package ‘lattice’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
about to run R CMD SHLIB -o lattice.so init.c threeDplot.c
sh: 1: 1: not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lattice’
* removing ‘/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/lattice’


I then did
$ cd lattice/src
$ R CMD SHLIB -d -o lattice.so init.c threeDplot.c
sh: 1: 1: not found

I'm interested in two things.
1 does anyone know what's going on?
2. how could I have figured this out myself? What could I have done
differently for the R CMD SHLIB command to get more output (for example
where this line of code was)?

I have read R installation and administration manual but I did not
understand a lot so I'm probably missing something that is in there but I'm
not sure what.

Thank you for your patience,

Roberta

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