[R] Help compiling R

[Hagedorn, Dan N]

Peter,

Thank you.  I had forgotten that there was an old copy of IDL out there
(actually, I also forgot that it is an RSI product!).  For some unknown reason,
R wanted to do an install in the IDL directories.  I am not sure what component
or routine R picked up during the configure, from the IDL directories (they are
on a different disk), but the Makeconf file ended up with the line, "INSTALL =
/.../IDL/idl_5.2/bin/install -c".  Maybe if I had remembered that IDL was a RSI
product, I would have searched for "IDL"?  ...  Nah!  I would still be puzzled!

When I removed those directories from my $path, R compiled fine - just as easy
as on my PC.

Your help was invaluable.  I probably would have spent several hours, at least,
before I either found the culprit, or gave up!

Best,
Dan Hagedorn
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA 
USA
(509) 375-3658
dan.hagedorn at pnl.gov

-----Original Message-----
From:	Peter Dalgaard BSA [SMTP:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk]
Sent:	Monday, January 24, 2000 02:58 PM
To:	Hagedorn, Dan N
Cc:	'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
Subject:	Re: [R] Help compiling R

"Hagedorn, Dan N" <dan.hagedorn at pnl.gov> writes:

> I have just downloaded R (v. 0.90.1) and am trying to compile it on a Sun/UNIX
> system running Solaris 2.6.  Needless to say, I have run into a problem, and
> cannot find any info on it through the CRAN site, or searching the old
> discussion files.
> 
> When I do the "make', after configuring, I get the message, "The current
> directory must be set to the RSI directory.  Change the default to the RSI
> directory and re-run this script.". repeatedly.  This message is generated
from
> running the Makefile.  I have saved the text (attached), in hopes someone can
> help me do the install correctly.

That's a new one... One should think that we'd seen all Solaris
problems by now, but no. My best guess is that something in the
makefile is catching the wrong script along your $PATH. Deja.com gives
only two matches on "RSI directory" and both have to do with IDL, does
that ring a bell?

You may want to try compiling as an ordinary user and only do the
final "make install" as root.

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