[R] Problems with CRAN package Ryacas

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

see below!

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Martin Maechler
>> <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>> Apropos:
>>>
>>> I don't have the problems, the OP had, but on my ubuntu
>>> notebook, Ryacas does not return expressions (just the strings),
>>> and hence
>>>
>>>    as.expression( <yacas-result> )
>>>
>>> always gives NULL  and e.g. the   demo(Ryacas-Function)
>>> also fails:
>>>
>>>  > yacas(expression(deriv(BurrCDF(x,c,k))))
>>>  k*c*x^(c-1)*(x^c+1)^(-(k+1));
>>>  > yy <- yacas(expression(deriv(BurrCDF(x,c,k))))
>>>  > yy
>>>  k*c*x^(c-1)*(x^c+1)^(-(k+1));
>>>  > str(yy)
>>>  List of 2
>>>  $          : NULL
>>>  $ YacasForm: chr "k*c*x^(c-1)*(x^c+1)^(-(k+1));"
>>>  - attr(*, "class")= chr "yacas"
>>>  >
>>>
>>> I have
>>>
>>> - yacas 1.2.2  (standard ubuntu package)
>>
>> The latest version of Ryacas on CRAN is 0.2-11
>> http://cran.r-project.org/package=Ryacas
>
> and the version of yacas supported by Ryacas is:
>
>> yacas("Version()")
> expression("1.0.63")
>
> The troubleshooting section on the home page that I referred to does
> mention this.

Thanks!

I deinstalled the synaptic-installed yacas, downloaded yacas_1.0.63.tgz
unpacked it , run
./configure --enable-server
then did make

But make does not terminate, it ends in error! I give the last few
lines of output:

rm -fr .libs/filescanner.la .libs/filescanner.* .libs/filescanner.*
gcc -shared  filescanner.lo plugin.lo   -Wl,-soname -Wl,filescanner.so
-o .libs/filescanner.so
ar cru .libs/filescanner.a  filescanner.o plugin.o
ranlib .libs/filescanner.a
creating filescanner.la
(cd .libs && rm -f filescanner.la && ln -s ../filescanner.la filescanner.la)
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/yacas/yacas-1.0.63/plugins/filescanner'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/yacas/yacas-1.0.63/plugins'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/yacas/yacas-1.0.63/plugins'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/yacas/yacas-1.0.63/plugins'
Making all in proteus
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/yacas/yacas-1.0.63/proteus'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/yacas/yacas-1.0.63/proteus'
Making all in manmake
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/yacas/yacas-1.0.63/manmake'
source='manripper.cpp' object='manripper.o' libtool=no \
	depfile='.deps/manripper.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/manripper.TPo' \
	depmode=gcc3 /bin/bash ../depcomp \
	g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..     -g -O2 -Wall  -c -o manripper.o
`test -f 'manripper.cpp' || echo './'`manripper.cpp
manripper.cpp: In function ‘void GetBf(char*, int, FILE*)’:
manripper.cpp:20:21: error: ‘strlen’ was not declared in this scope
manripper.cpp: In function ‘void ProcessFile(char*)’:
manripper.cpp:40:23: error: ‘strlen’ was not declared in this scope
manripper.cpp:43:30: error: ‘strncmp’ was not declared in this scope
manripper.cpp:57:25: error: ‘memset’ was not declared in this scope
manripper.cpp:58:39: error: ‘memcpy’ was not declared in this scope
manripper.cpp:78:27: error: ‘strlen’ was not declared in this scope
manripper.cpp:81:25: error: ‘memset’ was not declared in this scope
manripper.cpp:82:41: error: ‘memcpy’ was not declared in this scope
make[2]: *** [manripper.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/yacas/yacas-1.0.63/manmake'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/yacas/yacas-1.0.63'
make: *** [all] Error 2
kjetil at kjetil:~/yacas/yacas-1.0.63$

Kjetil



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