R-beta: data(foo) - Error in sub(... --- need "r[ege]x[p]" library

[gordon.harrington@uni.edu]

Martin Maechler replies:> 

> I cannot see your problem, i.e.,   data(iris) ... works just fine,
> 
> even though I use SPARC Solaris 2.x (2.5, not 2.4) as well.
> 
> >>>>> "gordon" == gordon harrington <gordon.harrington at uni.edu> writes:
> 
>     gordon> R-0.62.1 sparc-sun-solaris2.4:
> 
>     gordon> demo(graphics) stops at:
>      
>     >> data("iris")
>     gordon> Error in sub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended) :
>     gordon> invalid regular expression
 .....
> 
> 
> Can you try these two examples?
> 
>   > sub("a","AA", "a cat in the hat")
>   [1] "AA cat in the hat"
>   > gsub("a","AA", "a cat in the hat")
>   [1] "AA cAAt in the hAAt"
> 
> If they fail as well, it'll mean that during R installation,
> the "./configure" script couldn't find a proper
>  ``regular expression library''.


They do fail! But--regex and regcmp are in the Solaris2.4 library, libgen.a



> When you run ./configure
> you should get a line
> 
> checking for regcomp... (cached) yes
>                ^^^^^^^^ ===  <<<< you need this for  sub(), gsub()
>                 (optional)

configure does generate this output line on this system.

Nothing in the make output indicates any difficulty in finding regex during
compile and load so I can't tell where it is failing to load regex if that is
the problem.




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