[R] Installing GLMMGibbs problems

[Yang, Richard]

Dear all;

Installing the GLMMGibbs package to my Solaris Unix box, I got an compiling
error:

		ars.c:497:10: missing terminating " character
		ars.c: In function `dump_arse':
		ars.c:498: error: parse error before "mylesj"

		.....

The compiling error was reported to the list on Jul 3, 2003. According to
Prof. Brain Ripley this is a known problem with the package and gcc 3.3, and
the maintainer has been informed ...

Because I was unable to reach the maintainer by email (my email to
mylesj at icrf.icnet.uk on Oct. 2, bounced), I saved the GLMMGibbs package from
the tmp directory, edited the offensive lines in src/ars.c and saved the
file. Following a test compiling the edited ars.c without error, I re-tarred
and gzipped the saved GLMMGibbs package, stored the new
GLMMGibbs_0.5-1.tar.gz in a directory Rsources.

I expected to install the package from the saved directory (similar to
"install package(s) from local zip files..." on W2K) and used the
install.packages():

> install.packages("GLMMGibbs", lib="/PATH/Rsources/R-1.7.1/library",
destdir = "/PATH/Rsources")

Instead of using the local zip file from the Rsources directory, R
downloaded the GLMMGibbs_0.5-1.tar.gz from CRAN:

	trying URL
`http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/GLMMGibbs_0.5-1.tar.gz'
	Content type `application/x-tar' length 346260 bytes
	opened URL
	.....

	and produced the same compiling error. 

The question becomes how to install packages from local zip files on Solaris
or Linux platforms? 

In the absence of the original maintainer, could someone in R team edit the
source file ars.c in compliance with gcc 3.3? 

TIA,

Richard