[R-sig-Debian] Converting libraries for different operating systems

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 September 2009 at 07:13, lamorim at email.unc.edu wrote:
| Dear list members,
| 
|     I used a R package some years ago with an older version of R in 
| sparc-sun-solaris2 (Unix) machine. I have to redo some of those 
| analysis, but now my machine is ubuntu. I'm getting the following error 
| message when I try to install the library:
| 
| Error: package crf was built for sparc-sun-solaris2.6
| 
|     Is there any way to convert the library for different operating 
| system (Linux in this case)? 

Yes, it is called "install from source".  

Seriously, that is what a compiler does: translate from (human-readable)
source code to (machine-readable) executables.  And no, these are generally
not portable across system.  

| If so, could you please give some directions?

You need

    sudo R CMD INSTALL foo_1.2-3.tar.gz

and you probably want to install the r-base-dev package first, as well as
everything you need for building foo.

Dirk

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