Hi Sophie, (It is not good to abuse the bug system to asking for help that way... as others no doubt has already written. R-help may be a more appropriate channel for your questions)
One possibility is your "linux - mandriva 2007 - 64bits" assertion. I don't use Mandriva myself (my work machine is fedora 6 and home slackware 11), but I had a copy of the Mandriva 2007 powerplus pack (the "everything+open+proprietary" pack) directly from one of Mandriva's own technical staff in the last linux-related conference I went to, because a french collegue of mine wants the powerplus pack :-). My french colleague found something quite strange about the mandriva pack - all the rpms are listed as for i586 architecture; the readme says the DVDs are dual-arch and would work on opterons... I don't have access to a running Mandriva system, and my french colleague had opted for Ubuntu in the end (and it isn't an important/interesting-enough question I want to ask my mandriva contact directly - one learns not to abuse useful resources :-) ...), so maybe you can tell me if Mandriva 2007 on opteron is truly dual-arch. I would like to see your output of "file /usr/lib*/libjpeg*" . Here is mine: $file /usr/lib*/libjpeg* /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so: symbolic link to `libjpeg.so.62.0.0' /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62: symbolic link to `libjpeg.so.62.0.0' /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62.0.0: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), stripped /usr/lib/libjpeg.so: symbolic link to `libjpeg.so.62' /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62: symbolic link to `libjpeg.so.62.0.0' /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped and your "file /usr/lib*/R/lib/*" output (or equivalent where you install your R 2.4 and R 2.3). Here is mine (I have both 32-bit R and 64-bit R on my system): $ file /usr/lib*/R/lib/* /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), stripped /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), stripped /usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), stripped /usr/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped /usr/lib/R/lib/libRlapack.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped One possibility is that your R 2.3 is 32-bit and you just have 32-bits of everything and limited 64-bit support. (and you want to talk to Mandriva and/or dig out your mandriva DVD if such is that case). Good luck. Hin-Tak Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The file INSTALL says > > The main source of information on installation is the `R Installation > and Administration Manual', an HTML copy of which is available as file > `doc/html/R-admin.html'. Please read that before installing R. But > if you are impatient, read on but please refer to the manual to > resolve any problems. (If you obtained R using Subversion, the manual > is at doc/manual/R-admin.texi.) > > I suspect this was an installation problem, in which case it is covered in > that manual. Configure reports on the capabilities it found, e.g. > > Interfaces supported: X11, tcltk > External libraries: readline > Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS > Options enabled: shared BLAS, R profiling, Java > > and you have not told us what your build reported. > > An alternative is covered by ?capabilities > > X11: (Unix) Are the 'X11' graphics device and the X11-based data > editor available? This loads the X11 module if not already > loaded, and checks that the default display can be contacted > unless a 'X11' device has already been used. > > which if false will imply that jpeg and png are not available (but tcltk > could be). > > You need to demonstrate that this really is a bug in R and not a > mis-report using scarce resources (R-core time). (The R build not > magically finding missing components of your OS is not a bug.) > > > On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have tried to install R-2.4.x on my computer (linux - mandriva 2007 - >> 64bits), with tar file for R-4.2.1 and rpm file for R-2.4.0, and >> function capabilities() says to me that JPG, PNG and TCLTK are not >> available. However, with the version R-2.3.x with whicc I work , they >> are available. >> May be it's a bug, or may be my mandriva 2007 distribution are not all >> required libraries ? But I have not find "REQUIREMENTS" files on the >> CRAN site to verify that. >> >> Thanks for your help, >> >> Sophie Martin > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
