finally R 2.14 runs for me on fedora linux !!!!!! thanks to gavin, marc,
jose and pierre for  helping me. but especially gavin. I still have to
clean things up and make install instructions so I can send it to this
list. But first I need to sleep. I will send the instructions later today
since that's absolutely THE LEAST i can do.  I haven't gotten much sleep
the last couple of days and my head hurts so I'd rather make them with a
non-hurting head. this way, I won't skip key details like rsync-recommended
for example :). thanks again to everyone.












On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Gavin Simpson <ucfagls@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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@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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