[R] installation on FreeBSD

[loren mccarter]

I'm not sure what is causing it to dump core. I'm using FreeBSD 4.7 and
I'm waiting for 5.1 before upgrading so I can't troubleshoot it on my
end. Here are some things you may want to try: (1)~use /stand/sysinstall
to add R as a binary package (R-1.5.1_1 is available this way), (2)~if
you think it's X, try configuring R to install without X (I think there
is a configure option for this, something like: configure --without-x).
(3)~when you installed the FreeBSD packages, make sure that none of them
had XFree86 3.3.6 as a dependency, which would cause it to overwrite the 4.2
libraries (but, you'd really notice if this happened this b/c X would not
work at all, not just R). (4)~if this is a brand new machine setup, you
may want to use the more stable FreeBSD 4.7 until 5.1 comes out in a few
months. Of course, none of those suggestions are ideal, but may help you
to trouble shoot the issue.

Loren


On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Peng Zhang wrote:

> Dear loren,
>
> Thank you for your reply! I did try to install directly from source code.
> However I got the following error information:
>
> ../../../../library/methods/libs/methods.so is unchanged
> dumping R code in package 'methods'
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> *** Error code 139
>
> Stop in /usr/home/pzhang/R-1.6.2/src/library/methods.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Whether is there something wrong with my X settings? Thank you for your
> help.
>
> Best wishes,
> Peng
>
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> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, loren mccarter wrote:
>
> > I've been using R on FreeBSD for several years now so I can tell you it
> > works fine. However I have not yet upgraded to FreeBSD 5.0 so perhaps it
> > has something to do with the new version. Here's something you may want
> > to try: Rather than using the old version of R from the FreeBSD ports
> > collection, download the latest R source directly from CRAN then try to
> > ./configure && make && make install it. I've found that R obeys the
> > FreeBSD 'hier' and the sources on CRAN are always more up to date than the
> > compliled FreeBSD packages or ports.
> >
> > Loren
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Peng Zhang wrote:
> >
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > I just changed to FreeBSD platform, and want to install R on it. I use
> > > FreeBSD 5.0 and install nearly all packages on the machine. When I use
> > > ports to install R, (cd /usr/ports/math/R-letter, and then type make) I
> > > got the following error information.
> > > ../../../../library/methods/libs/methods.so is unchanged
> > > dumping R code in package 'methods'
> > > Fatal error: The X11 shared library could not be loaded.
> > >   The error was /usr/ports/math/R-letter/work/R-1.6.0/modules/R_X11.so:
> > > Undefined symbol "R_GlobalEnv"
> > > Can somebody tell me why and how to fix this problem?
> > >
> > > Thank you for your help!
> > >
> > > Best wishes,
> > > Peng
> > >
> > > *******************************
> > > Peng Zhang
> > > Department of Biostatistics
> > > Harvard School of Public Health
> > > 655 Huntington Avenue
> > > Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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> > >
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