[R] error during make of R-patched on Fedora core 2

[Douglas Bates]

Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Dear list,
> 
> I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and seeing as there wasn't an rpm
> for this OS on CRAN yet I thought it was about time I had a go at
> compiling R myself. Having run into the X11 problem I switched to
> trying to install R-patched. I followed the instructions in the R
> Installation & Admin manual to download the sources of the Recommended
> packages and place the files in
> R_HOME/src/library/Recommended. ./configure worked fine so I
> progressed to make, which has hit upon this error when the process
> arrived at the Recommended packages:
> 
> 
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> 
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> 
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `survival.ts', needed by
> `stamp-recommended'.  Stop.
> 
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> 
> make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> 
> make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2
> 
> Being a relative newbie to Linux I have no-idea how to continue to
> solve this issue :-(
> 
> 
> The only difference I can see between the /src/library/Recommended
> directories of R-1.9.0 and R-patched is that in R-1.9.0 it contains
> links to each of the tar.gz (excluding the version info) as well as
> the tar.gz themselves for each of the packages. Is this in some way
> related to my problem?
> 
> 
> If anyone can help me solve this issue I'd be most grateful.
> 
> Thanks in advance,

The easiest approach is to run
 ./tools/rsync-recommended 
from the top-level source directory for R.  That uses rsync to
downloads the sources for the recommended packages then creates the
necessary links.  (At least it works for R-devel and I believe it
works for R-patched.  There was a time when the links were not getting
corrected properly.)