[R] installation on FreeBSD

[Peng Zhang]

Dr Mccarter and Dr Gentleman,

Thank you for your reply. I reinstalled the system and found out that you
can not install R on FreeBSD 5.0 (I mean in the default setting when
installing R and also I tried to open the --enable-R-shlib. I chose
installing full binary, kernel src, & X during the installation of
FreeBSD) but can install R on FreeBSD 4.7. I don't have ability to figure
out why. Just bring it out.

Best wishes,
Peng

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Peng Zhang
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
655 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, loren mccarter wrote:

> 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
> >
> > *******************************
> > Peng Zhang
> > Department of Biostatistics
> > Harvard School of Public Health
> > 655 Huntington Avenue
> > Boston, Massachusetts 02115
> > *******************************
> >
> > I believe I can fly
> > I believe I can touch the sky
> >
> > 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
> > > > *******************************
> > > >
> > > > I believe I can fly
> > > > I believe I can touch the sky
> > > >
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