[R-sig-Debian] Non-zero exit status for survival package

[Michael Rutter]

Patrick,

Can you give an example of a package that you have tried to install?  Or 
you using 32 or 64-bit Karmic?

Thanks,
Michael

On 05/09/2010 10:35 AM, Patrick Richardson wrote:
> I'm running R 2.11 on Karmic. I'm having difficulty installing quite a
> few packages with the returned error message of "installation of package
> "[whatever the packages happens to be]" had non-zero exit status. I know
> this message sometimes is caused by incorrect or missing java packages
> and the like. I generally don't have issues with the installation of R
> or R packages but I don't know where to start on this. I have looked to
> ensure that I have fortran and C++ compilers installed. I want to (if I
> can) avoid indiscriminately installing packages "until it starts
> working". I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting this. Could
> anyone lend a hand, please?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
>   [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=C
> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>   [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> LC_ADDRESS=C
> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.11.0
>
>> capabilities()
>      jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets
> libxml     fifo   cledit
>      TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE
> TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
>     iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo
>      TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
>
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