On 18/05/2013 07:54, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
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 ${R_HOME}/etc/Renviron.
Is it necessary for R >= 3.0.1 to have one build as
"main"-architecture and the other one as sub-architecture? I could not
find anything in the NEWS file or the Admin manual that indicated that
this would now be necessary.
Not exclusively, but as the Mac build no longer uses this, we do need
people who do to test pre-releases. One of us needs to build such a
setup and test it ....
Cheers,
Berwin
For completeness:
I am running an Ubuntu 12.04 system and:
berwin@bossiaea:~$ 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
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