[R] installation question/problem

[DW]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:

>DW <dwinner-lists at att.net> writes:
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>>Peter Dalgaard wrote:
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>>>DW <dwinner-lists at att.net> writes:
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>>>>Hello,
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>>>>Can anybody tell me why I am getting the error below when I run
>>>>"make check" and if it has any consequences I may regret later?
>>>>
>>>>I run:
>>>>
>>>>#  ./configure --enable-R-shlib
>>>># make
>>>># make check
>>>># make install
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>configure, make and make install all work without errors, and it
>>>>seems to install ok, and I even test the R binary after install, so
>>>>I guess it's working. But I want to make sure. I'm not going to be
>>>>using R, but I'm the net admin who has been tasked with installing
>>>>it our servers, so I don't want any nasty surprises.
>>>>
>>>>I wonder if it's possible that I'm missing libraries because I'm
>>>>not running X on the servers?
>>>>
>>>>This is:
>>>>FreeBSD 5.4 p8
>>>>R-2.2.1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>make check output:
>>>>
>>>>(snip)
>>>>.....
>>>>running code in 'grDevices-Ex.R' ... OK
>>>>comparing 'grDevices-Ex.Rout' to 'grDevices-Ex.Rout.prev' ... OK
>>>>running code in 'graphics-Ex.R' ... OK
>>>>comparing 'graphics-Ex.Rout' to 'graphics-Ex.Rout.prev' ... OK
>>>>running code in 'stats-Ex.R' ...*** Error code 1
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>>>Ouch.
>>>
>>>Please look for stats-Ex.Rout.fail at tell us what is in it (you
>>>should find it in tests/Examples in your builddir, interesting stuff
>>>should be towards the end of the file).
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>>Here is what I found:
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>> > ## using the nl2sol algorithm
>> > fm4DNase1 <- nls( density ~ Asym/(1 + exp((xmid - log(conc))/scal)),
>>+                   data = DNase1,
>>+                   start = list(Asym = 3, xmid = 0, scal = 1),
>>+                   trace = TRUE, algorithm = "port")
>>  0      0.00000:  3.00000  0.00000  1.00000
>>Error in nls(density ~ Asym/(1 + exp((xmid - log(conc))/scal)), data =
>>DNase1,  :
>>        Convergence failure: See PORT documentation.  Code (27)
>>Execution halted
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>>Thanks,
>>DW
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>Hmm. Faint bell ringing:
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>We had a thread in R-core involving that error message (code 27 too)
>in a different context, back in August. It could indicate that you are
>tickling an intermittent bug in nlminb. Are you any good with a
>debugger?
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Also, for whatever it's worth, I tried this on FreeBSD 6.0 and it worked.

I then went back and tried again on a 3rd machine running FreeBSD 5.4 
with Xorg (because I'm running X on the 6.0 box and thought maybe the 
problem is a missing library or some other component), and it produced 
the same error as the first 5.4 box.

-DW