[R] compiling latest version of R

[Uwe Ligges]

Jenny Barnes wrote:
> Dear R-help community,
> 
> I have had trouble in the past installing the latest version of R: we got the 
> errors shown below (the computer specifications and version of R are below 
> that). Does anybody have tips for compiling the latest version of R so that I 
> can avoid these errors?

1. 2.4.1 is recent, not 2.3.1 as shown at the bottom.
2. You have some R-2.4.0 in your path or set in your R_LIBS, remove that 
one first.

Uwe Ligges


> 
> configure
> make
> ...
> ...
> ...
> 
> f90: CODE: 0 WORDS, DATA: 0 WORDS
> gcc -G -L/usr/local/lib -o stats.so init.o kmeans.o  ansari.o bandwidths.o
> chisq
> sim.o d2x2xk.o fexact.o kendall.o ks.o  line.o smooth.o  prho.o swilk.o 
> ksmooth
> .o loessc.o isoreg.o Srunmed.o Trunmed.o  dblcen.o distance.o
> hclust-utils.o  nl
> s.o  HoltWinters.o PPsum.o arima.o burg.o filter.o  mAR.o pacf.o starma.o
> port.o
>  family.o sbart.o bsplvd.o bvalue.o bvalus.o loessf.o ppr.o qsbart.o 
> sgram.o si
> nerp.o sslvrg.o stxwx.o  hclust.o kmns.o  eureka.o stl.o portsrc.o
> -L../../../..
> /lib -lRblas  -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s
> mkdir ../../../../library/stats/libs
> building package 'datasets'
> mkdir ../../../library/datasets
> mkdir ../../../library/datasets/R
> mkdir ../../../library/datasets/data
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
>         unable to load shared library
> '/tmp/R-2.4.0/library/stats/libs/stats.so'
> :
>   ld.so.1: R: fatal: relocation error: file
> /tmp/R-2.4.0/library/stats/libs/stat
> s.so: symbol __i_abs: referenced symbol not found
> Execution halted
> *** Error code 1
> 
> 
> These are my specifications:
> 
> platform       sparc-sun-solaris2.10     
> arch           sparc                     
> os             solaris2.10               
> system         sparc, solaris2.10        
> status                                   
> major          2                         
> minor          3.1                       
> year           2006                      
> month          06                        
> day            01                        
> svn rev        38247                     
> language       R                         
> version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> 
> 
> Many thanks for your time in reading this problem, I look forward to hearing 
> your suggestions and advice,
> 
> Jenny
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jennifer Barnes
> PhD student: long range drought prediction 
> Climate Extremes Group
> Department of Space and Climate Physics
> University College London
> Holmbury St Mary 
> Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT
> Tel: 01483 204149
> Mob: 07916 139187
> Web: http://climate.mssl.ucl.ac.uk
> 
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