gotcha marc. gavin told me that earlier but I thought I was becoming an
expert ( NOT ) so I didn't look at his notes when starting from scratch.
hopefully this time I'll finally get it. jose: disregard my previous email.
that must be the problem. thanks marc.




On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@me.com> wrote:

>
> On Nov 7, 2011, at 9:00 AM, 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 ?
> >
> > 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 ?
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> Mark,
>
> If you are building from SVN as opposed to using the tarball, there is an
> extra step that is required.
>
> Change into the main folder into which the svn files have been downloaded.
> Then run:
>
>  ./tools/rsync-recommended
>
> After doing that, then run ./configure, make, etc. The svn repo does not
> contain the source files for the "Recommended" packages and these need to
> be downloaded separately via rsync.
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>

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