[R] Make error for R-devel package under linux

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It is Feb 2 today: this was fixed 60 hours ago.

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R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-02-01 r40632)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Xinxia Peng wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got an error while compiling the R-devel (R-2.5.0) package under
> Redhat Linux, but the R-patch package (R-2.4.1) was compiled perfectly
> fine. The following is what I got from the R-devel package downloaed on
> Jan. 30th., 2007:
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> ./configure
>
> ....
>
> R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
>  Source directory:          .
>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
>  C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2
>  Fortran 77 compiler:       g77  -g -O2
>
>  C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>  Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O2
>  Obj-C compiler:
>
>  Interfaces supported:      X11
>  External libraries:        readline
>  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
>  Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling, Java
>
>  Recommended packages:      yes
>
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R manuals
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
>
>> make
>
> .....
>
> mkdir -p -- ../../../../library/tools/libs
> make[5]: Leaving directory
> `/nethome/xpeng/linux/tools/R-devel/src/library/tools/src'
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/nethome/xpeng/linux/tools/R-devel/src/library/tools/src'
> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'tools'
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!
> 2: Line starting 'Version: 2.5.0 ...' is malformed!
> 3: Line starting 'Priority: base ...' is malformed!
> 4: Line starting 'Title: Tools for Pac ...' is malformed!
> 5: Line starting 'Author: Kurt Hornik  ...' is malformed!
> 6: Line starting 'Maintainer: R Core T ...' is malformed!
> 7: Line starting 'Description: Tools f ...' is malformed!
> 8: Line starting 'License: GPL Version ...' is malformed!
> 9: Line starting 'Built: R 2.5.0; x86_ ...' is malformed!
> Execution halted
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/nethome/xpeng/linux/tools/R-devel/src/library/tools'
> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/nethome/xpeng/linux/tools/R-devel/src/library'
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/nethome/xpeng/linux/tools/R-devel/src'
> make: *** [R] Error 1
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> I got the same error after I went into the directoy
> 'R-devel/src/library/tools' and run 'make' again. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Xinxia
>
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