[R] R installation problems...

[Diego Kuonen]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> Could you please try R-patched.  This has a workaround for this, and as
> 1.2.1 is due next week, we would be happy to know if the warnings go away.
> Also, you will get a better R using R-patched.

Ok. Thanks. After downloading the latest R-patched from

  http://cran.r-project.org/src/devel/

I did

  $ gzip -dc R-patched.tar.gz | tar xvf -
  $ cd R-patched/
  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/R
  ...
  R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu

    Source directory:          .
    Installation directory:    /usr/R
    C compiler:                gcc  -mieee-fp -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -g -O2
    C++ compiler:              c++  -mieee-fp -g -O2
    FORTRAN compiler:          g77  -g -O2

    X11 support:               yes
    Gnome support:             no
    Tcl/Tk support:            yes

    R profiling support:       yes
    R as a shared library:     no
  $ make
  ...

And, indeed, all warnings went away :-) 

The "make" performed properly as well as the "make check", but:

  $ /usr2/R-patched/bin/R --verbose --vanilla
  R : Copyright 2001, The R Development Core Team
  Version 1.2.0 Patched (2001-01-09)
  ...
  now dyn.load(/usr2/R-patched/library/ctest/libs/ctest.so)..
  >R_ReplConsole(): before "for(;;)" {main.c}
  Segmentation fault

After a "make install" nothing changes:

  $ /usr/R/bin/R --verbose --vanilla
  R : Copyright 2001, The R Development Core Team
  Version 1.2.0 Patched (2001-01-09)
  ...
  now dyn.load(/usr/R/lib/R/library/ctest/libs/ctest.so)..
  >R_ReplConsole(): before "for(;;)" {main.c}
  Segmentation fault

:-(
 
> But don't trust RH7.0 either!

:-) that's a good point :-)

Greets + thanks...

  Diego


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