Dear all, When installing the usual packages that I use, after installing R 3.0.1, I noticed that the installation of some packages that query R about its configuration did not succeed. The problem is exemplified by:
berwin@bossiaea:~$ R-3.0.1 CMD config CC /opt/R/R-3.0.1/lib/R/bin/config: 222: .: Can't open /opt/R/R-3.0.1/lib/R/etc/Renviron Prior to R 3.0.1 such commands worked fine: berwin@bossiaea:~$ R-3.0.0 CMD config CC gcc -std=gnu99 I noticed now that my installations of the development and patched version of R have the same problem (since I usually do not install packages in those versions that query the configuration, I hadn't noticed the issue earlier). The problem seems to be line 222 of `R RHOME`/bin/config (when R is R 3.0.1) which reads: . ${R_HOME}/etc/Renviron The file ${R_HOME}/etc/Renviron does not necessarily exists if one has opted for 32/64-bit builds and installed both as sub-architectures, which I have. In my installation ${R_HOME}/etc/32/Renviron and ${R_HOME}/etc/64/Renviron exist, but no ${R_HOME}/etc/Renviron. Is it necessary for R >= 3.0.1 to have one build as "main"-architecture and the other one as sub-architecture? I could not find anything in the NEWS file or the Admin manual that indicated that this would now be necessary. Cheers, Berwin For completeness: I am running an Ubuntu 12.04 system and: berwin@bossiaea:~$ echo "sessionInfo()" | R-3.0.1 --slave R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/64 (64-bit) locale: [1] C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel