[R] Can not install fCalendar package under R 2.6.2

[chalabi at phys.ethz.ch]

Yan Wang <ywang67 at isye.gatech.edu> writes:

>    Very happy to receive your help. Actually what I use is 262.73. In 
> detail, what I have been doing is the following:
>    First I have a not-up-to-dated R 2.4.0 under ubuntu 7.04, then I tried 
> to install fCalendar(what I really want to use is fGarch, but it depends 
> on fCalendar), I use install.packages to do it, so the fCalendar packages 
> I had downloaded is up to dated 262.73(I also have checked it to make 
> sure), then R reported a strange error, saying it found a syntax error-a 
> parse error at line 122 and 123 something. It's a pity I did not copy that
> down. Then I found that my R is old, so I upgraded it to 2.6.2 with apt-get
> and tried it again. The situation improved, it did not say it has difficulty
> parsing any more, but it reported the error I have posted.
>
>    Another thing is that I have a R 2.5.1 under windows, yesterday I tried 
> to use install.packages to install fCalendar under it, and everything 
> worked smoothly, it was a success, no problem whatsoever.
>
>    As a common R user, I am not capable of debugging it. I hope R gurus 
> like prof Brian Ripley could have a closer look at my problem.
>
>    Thanks a lot!

Hi Yan,

Have you installed the r-base-dev package in ubuntu to be able to
compile packages? (sudo apt-get install r-base-dev)

Could you please send me the error message you have?

Yohan

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