[R] Re: some questions!

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm also cc'ing it to r-help.
>
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Kenneth Cabrera wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:09:21 -0500
> > From: Kenneth Cabrera <krcabrer at perseus.unalmed.edu.co>
> > To: kwan022 at stat.auckland.ac.nz
> > Subject: some questions!
> >
> > Hello Dear Ko-Kang Wang:
> >
> > I am trying to compile R v 1.6.1 .
> >
> > I am following the C:\R-1.61\src\gnuwin32\INSTALL file,
> > and the chapter 4 of your book.
> >
> > But I have some questions:
> > 1. When I run the "make" command for the first time there appears
> > several warning messages of
> >     something about "defined but no used", but when I "make" a second
> > time there is no more
> >      warning messages... Is that normal in the compilation process?
>
> This is new.  I've never seen this before.  Was there any error messages?

It is normal. make only makes things the first time.  There is unused code
in the methods package.

> > 2. When I  use the command "make docs"  it shows me many messages like this:
> >    "\Underfull \hbox (badness XXX) in paragraph at line xxxx-xxxx"
> >    "\Overfull \hbox (10.50755pt to wide) in paragraph at lines 308-309"
> >    Im using the TEX from fptex version 0.6 from ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex.
> >    What Im I missing on the TEX software?
> >     Do I better use MIKTEX?
> >     How do I configure the TEX?
>
> I think either fptex or MikTeX will be fine.  From memory it shows up on
> my screen too and I'm using MikTeX.

Normal latex/tex warnings.

> > 3. How can I make the change from foo_*.tar.gz to foo.tgz with one line
> > command?
> >      Should I rename each one file by file?
>
> mv foo_*.tar.gz foo.tgz
>
> mv.exe is in Prof. Ripley's tools.zip.

Why do you want to?  R-1.6.1.tgz should unpack with the correct names
if you use my tools.

> > 4. Why some precompiled zip packages (downloaded form the cran site)
> > have the following error
> >     when you try to use the data with the data() function it appears the
> > following message:
> >      Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> >      In addition: Warning message:
> >      cannot open file `ibm.txt'
> >     I am typing:
> >     library(waveslim)
> >     data(ibm)
>
> I don't have this problem.  How did you installed the package?  Try to
> install it from Rgui, Packages -> Install Packages from CRAN... , then
> select waveslim.  I just tried it and it worked fine for me.

It worked for me when it was previously reported to R-help.  We can't
diagnose such problems remotely, but please bear in mind that they are
probably due to problems with your Windows installation.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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