[R-SIG-Mac] installing R-2.8 from source - segmentation faults at make check

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi Mike,

Just gonna CC the list back so that more people can chime in if  
necessary:

> Thanks.  I have been trying to access the r.research.att.com site  
> all weekend, to no avail.  When I run your command below, all I get  
> is jibberish in the terminal window.  Are you experiencing the same  
> problems (i.e., is the jibberish normal?).

I'm not getting jibberish ... I'm also not having any problems  
accessing the r.research.att.com site, so ... is that still happening  
for you?

Anyway, an alternative you can try is to just d/l the binary directly  
using your browser, and run the necessary commands (the tar stuff)  
from the terminal.

That would look something like this.

1) Download the 2.8 binary using your browser by just dropping its URL  
your address field:

http://r.research.att.com/R-2.8-branch-leopard-universal.tar.gz

I will assume that you're using Leopard + Safari, which is important  
for two things

(i) It should d/l that binary into your ~/Downloads folder
(ii) it will automagically unzip the gz and leave you with the R-2.8- 
*.tar file (I think, mine does this automatically)

2) You'll have to unpack the tar archive *into* the correct location,  
which is the root of your system. That's why you need to use `sudo`  
and that's what the "-C /" is doing at the end of the tar command. So,  
now that you've d/led the archive w/ your browser, from the terminal,  
type:

$ sudo tar xvf ~/Downloads/R-2.8-branch-leopard-universal.tar -C /

Note that it's not "tar xvfz" since it's unzipped ... if your binary  
ends in *.tar.gz then you'd add the z

Anyway, that should do the trick, too, so let us know if that works.

-steve

> On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Michael Braun wrote:
>>
>>> I should note that the only reason I am compiling from source is  
>>> that, as far as I can tell, there are no 64-bit binaries available  
>>> for Leopard yet.  If someone could point me to such binaries, that  
>>> might solve my problem.
>>
>>
>> Check out this page here:
>> http://r.research.att.com/
>>
>> Primarily that blue box about 1/2-way down the page, that says:
>>
>> Leopard builds can be installed as follows - paste in Terminal (for  
>> R 2.8.x):
>> curl -s http://r.research.att.com/R-2.8-branch-leopard-universal.tar.gz 
>>  | sudo tar fvxz - -C /
>>
>> That should do the trick and save you the hassle of compiling  
>> yourself. ;-)
>>
>> -steve
>>
>> --
>> Steve Lianoglou
>> Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
>> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>>
>> http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos
>>
>>
>>
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> 	Assistant Professor of Management Science (Marketing Group)
> MIT Sloan School of Management
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Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos