[R] Help: Error when installing R 2.8.1 in IBM AIX system from source code

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 19/07/2013 9:27 AM, De Xin Luan wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> They can't solve the problem of R installation and direct me to 
> contact R help. I want to follow your standard way to install R 2.8.1 
> in AIX 7.1 64bit system. Please guide me to install R 2.8.1. Thank you.
>

Presumably you're paying them, so if they can't figure out how to solve 
your problem, you should stop paying them.  You're not paying us, but we 
will continue to offer help as long as you follow our advice, which is 
to upgrade to R 3.0.1.

There might be someone on this list who would offer tech support for 
2.8.1 for a fee, but I doubt it.

Duncan Murdoch


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> PM---On 19/07/2013 6:16 AM, De Xin Luan wrote: > Hi Jeff,Duncan 
> Murdoch ---07/19/2013 09:11:52 PM---On 19/07/2013 6:16 AM, De Xin Luan 
> wrote: > Hi Jeff,
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> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> To: De Xin Luan/China/IBM at IBMCN,
> Cc: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>, r-help at r-project.org
> Date: 07/19/2013 09:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Help: Error when installing R 2.8.1 in IBM AIX system 
> from source code
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> On 19/07/2013 6:16 AM, De Xin Luan wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > Thanks for your quick response. Let me describe more about my situation.
> >
> > 1. Patch file - Yes, I found patch didn't change any file, so I manually
> > changed 4 files(R-2.8.1/configure, R-2.8.1/configure.ac,
> > R-2.8.1/Makeconf.in, R-2.8.1/src/main/Makefile.in) by reading the patch
> > file.
> >
> > 2. why I use old version R 2.8.1 - We want to use SPSS Statistics to 
> call R
> > in our server and have to install "Statistics essentials for R" 
> after R is
> > installed successfully. In Statistics 20 document, it only supports 
> R 2.8.1
> > and provide that install guidance.
>
> In that case, you should be contacting SPSS tech support for help.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> >
> > 3. I don't know how to disable HTML format in my mail client. Sorry for
> > that. I rewrite colorful part again here as 3.1 and 3.2 :
> >
> > 3.1 Issue1: during "configure" step, I faced this error:"./configure
> > [20510]: "${}": bad substitution".
> > And I took action to solve it, the action is :add
> > "shlibpath_var=LD_LIBRARY_PATH" before line 20510 of configure file.
> >
> > 3.2 Issue2: during "make" step, I faced the below error but I don't know
> > how to fix it:
> >
> > ../../../bin/R[206]: "${}": bad substitution
> > make: The error code from the last command is 1.
> >
> > Stop.
> >
> > 4. Since you said it's not a standard patch, do you have a standard 
> patch
> > for R 2.8.1 installation in AIX 7.1 64bit system?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Dexin Luan (èïµÂÐÀ)
> >
> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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