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

[Michael Braun]

Steve:

Everything is working fine now.  I am able to access  
r.research.att.com, and I got the binaries.  Thanks so much for your  
help.

Michael



On Nov 24, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------
>> Michael Braun
>> Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor, and
>> 	Assistant Professor of Management Science (Marketing Group)
>> MIT Sloan School of Management
>> One Amherst St., E40-169
>> Cambridge, MA 02142
>> braunm at mit.edu
>> 617-253-3436
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
> Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>
> http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos
>
>
>

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Michael Braun
Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor, and
	Assistant Professor of Management Science (Marketing Group)
MIT Sloan School of Management
One Amherst St., E40-169
Cambridge, MA 02142
braunm at mit.edu
617-253-3436