[R-sig-Fedora] installing 2.14.0 on fedora

[Gavin Simpson]

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 10:00 -0500, Mark Leeds wrote:
> Hi Jose: I started totally from scratch and did that yum-builddep R as you
> suggested.
> 
>  Then I checked out the latest R 2.14 branch using svn.  But now, when I
> try to configure, I get an error that  it can't find the MASS package ?

did you forget to download the reccomended packages again?

../tools/rsync-recommended

should do it, as I mentioned earlier in this thread.

> Do you know if MASS is supposed to be available for R .2.14 ? It is not in
> /src/library of the source tree but the makefile.in there has below in it
> which I think makes it look for MASS ? I wasn't getting this earlier so
> could it have something to do with running yum-builddep R before I started
> ?  Is there a way to "undo"
> the yum-builddep R command if that's the case ?

This is totally unconnected. All that yum-builddep command does is
install the packages required to build the R package in the Fedora
repos. You don't actually need all of these; for example you can use the
LAPACK and BLAS provided with R rather than the Fedora ones. I know I
have had issues with Fedora's BLAS and/or LAPACK in the past.

libicu-devel

will give you the iconv support I mentioned was missing earlier.

pango-devel is needed for cairo IIRC
pcre-devel is for PERL regular expressions

The packages to do with texinfo and texlive are required for building
the manuals/r-help.

HTH

G

> Any knowledge or help is appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> # CONTENTS OF BOTTOM of makefile.in /src/library OF R source.
> #==========================================================================
> ## Hardcoded dependencies (see '../../../share/make/vars.mk')
> Matrix.ts: lattice.ts
> mgcv.ts: nlme.ts MASS.ts Matrix.ts
> nlme.ts: lattice.ts
> class.ts: MASS.ts
> ## and for static html links
> boot.ts: MASS.ts survival.ts
> cluster.ts: MASS.ts
> 
> 
> 2011/11/7 Jos Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt>
> 
> > On 11/07/2011 02:29 PM, Mark Leeds wrote:
> > > Thanks jose. I'll do that. it's much appreciated. I'm getting further
> > > than my emails show because
> > > I've been communicating with Gavin privately. But definitely I'll do
> > > that anyway. Thanks again.
> > >
> > >
> > > Mark
> >
> > As a devil advocate I should say that this does not work every time. The
> > traditional case is when you are building a new version and the
> > dependencies have changed although I am quite sure that it is not the
> > case here.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Jos Matos
> >
> >
> 
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