[R] nlme html?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Christian Hoffmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When installing "nlme" from CRAN on Solaris 5.3.1 by doing

Solaris numbers went 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7 aka 7, 8, 9.  The underlying OS
is SunOS with version numbers like 5.3...5.6, 5.7, .... Try uname -a:

markov% uname -a
SunOS markov.stats 5.7 Generic_106541-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4

I don't recall a 5.3.1, but it would be very old.

> install.packages("nlme")
>
> I get:
>
> [clip]
> gcc -G  -o nlme.so corStruct.o gnls.o matrix.o nlOptimizer.o nlme.o
> nlmefit.o nls.o pdMat.o -L/usr/local/lib
>  R
>  data
>  inst
> /usr/local/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: /bin/perl: not found
>  help
> /usr/local/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: /usr/local/lib/R/bin/build-help: not found
> /usr/local/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: /usr/local/lib/R/bin/Rd2contents: not found
>  DONE (nlme)
>
> I wonder why I have never encountered this difficulty before. I have:
>
> > .lib.loc
> [1] "/home/woodstock/hoffmann/R/Sources/lib"
> [2] "/usr/local/lib/R/library"
>
> and
>
> /bin >which perl
> /usr/local/bin/perl
>
> This seems non-standard!?

It's standard on Solaris.  There is a Perl install-time option to link to
/usr/bin/perl, I think (and /bin is linked to /usr/bin).

It seems that when R was installed, /bin/perl was found in the path.
Is it possible that the path has been changed or Perl re-installed?
If so the simplest thing is to re-install R, as this is encoded in lots
of places.

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