Re: [R] R-2.12.0 problem on Solaris 10

2010-11-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 11/ 9/10 09:22 PM, Zhang,Jun wrote: It's been a few days I cannot compile to get R-2.12.0 working at sparc Solaris 10. Seems the R software installation is OK, but the recommended package called Matrix stopped me, since I can finish the installation with the configure option

Re: [R] R-2.12.0 problem on Solaris 10

2010-11-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 11/ 9/10 10:30 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 11/ 9/10 09:22 PM, Zhang,Jun wrote: It's been a few days I cannot compile to get R-2.12.0 working at sparc Solaris 10. Seems the R software installation is OK, but the recommended package called Matrix stopped me, since I can finish

Re: [R] R 2.11.1 is released

2010-05-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 05/31/10 10:16 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: I've rolled up R-2.11.1.tar.gz a short while ago. This is an update release, which fixes a number of mostly minor issues. The most annoying one was probably the problem with format.POSIXlt causing C stack overflow on long date vectors. See the full

[R] Corrections for Solaris stuff in manual

2010-05-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
There are a number of errors in the R manual about Solaris. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Solaris 1) Firstly, Sun are now owned by Oracle, who bought them for $7 billion. 2) (Recent Sun machines are Opterons (‘amd64’) rather than ‘x86’, but 32-bit ‘x86’ executables are

[R] R can't find gcc library that other programs can.

2010-06-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
R is used in the Sage project. R is building on Solaris 10 with SPARC processors. Until recently, I did not give it much more thought, as it appeard to build ok. More recently someone noticed a test failure. It would appear a number of modules are not building (Matrix, class, mgcv, nnet,

[R] Can one get a list of recommended packages?

2010-06-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
R 2.10.1 is used in the Sage maths project. Several recommended packages (Matrix, class, mgcv, nnet, rpart, spatial, and survival) are failing to build on Solaris 10 (SPARC). We would like to be able to get a list of the recommended packages for R 2.10.1, but ideally via a call to R, so it is

Re: [R] Can one get a list of recommended packages?

2010-06-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/12/10 03:31 PM, Tal Galili wrote: Hello David, I am not sure I understood your question. Sorry, perhaps I should have rephrased it better. Are you asking what are the packages that the R release comes with? Sort of. When R is configured, there is an option

Re: [R] Can one get a list of recommended packages?

2010-06-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/12/10 05:27 PM, Douglas Bates wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: R 2.10.1 is used in the Sage maths project. Several recommended packages (Matrix, class, mgcv, nnet, rpart, spatial, and survival) are failing to build on Solaris 10

Re: [R] building 2.11.1 on solaris 10

2010-06-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/15/10 08:07 PM, Coons, Don W wrote: Trying to get 2.11.1 built on a solaris 10 machine. This particular machine I do not have root access so I have just created an area under my home to use. I am currently having issues in the src/library area most specifically with getting the datasets

Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...

2010-06-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/20/10 02:31 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: Hi All, I've been fiddling around with various ways to estimate the popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, JMP, Minitab, Statistica, Systat, BMDP, S-PLUS, R-PLUS and Revolution R. It's not an easy task. You can see what I've come up with so far

Re: [R] trouble building R on solaris

2010-06-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/23/10 11:08 PM, Mathew Fox wrote: Dear all, I just changed from linux to a solaris server and I'm having trouble building R from source. First, you might be better posting on r-devel. I know this seems unuual, and installation problems are usually handled on the help or support lists,

Re: [R] Why software fails in scientific research

2010-06-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/ 1/10 12:23 AM, Sharpie wrote: John Maindonald wrote: I came across this notice of an upcoming webinar. The issues identified in the first paragraph below seem to me exactly those that the R project is designed to address. The claim that most research software is barely fit for

[R] R still accepts the undocumented option --with-iconv=no

2010-02-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
This is not so much a user help question, as a bug report (I think!) Previous versions of R allowed the option --with-iconv=no to used to disable the use of iconv. That option is no longer documented. However, using that option on the latest does not generate an error message, but is silently

[R] Build failure on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-02-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I'm trying to build R 2.10.1 on a Sun Blade 1000 running Solaris 10 (03/05 release). I've installed iconv 1.13.1 and used: CPPFLAGS=-I /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/include (which is where iconv is) LDFLAGS= -R/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/lib

Re: [R] Build failure on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2010-02-17 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I'm trying to build R 2.10.1 on a Sun Blade 1000 running Solaris 10 (03/05 release). I've installed iconv 1.13.1 and used: CPPFLAGS=-I /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/include (which is where iconv is) LDFLAGS= -R/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3.3.alpha0

Re: [R] new to R Project

2010-02-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
chinna wrote: hi everyone, i am new to R project can anyone please help me by providing documents my goal is using R i have to connect to the database and i have to generate reports. Thanks in advance chinna. R is a complex program. If you can't work out how to find the documentation, I