On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14-01-26 12:44 AM, Roberta Jankowski wrote:> Dear R-devel, > >> >> I'm trying to get practice learning more about the internals of R so am >> experimenting with the development version. I successfully cloned the SVN >> repo and built and installed R. I am using 2014-01-23 r64861. >> >> However, I cannot seem to install the lattice package. I tried within R >> using install.packages and got the error >> sh: 1: 1: not found > > That message comes from "sh", the command shell that R is running. > > >> >> I then downloaded the tar.gz and tried it as follows: >> $ sudo R CMD INSTALL lattice_0.20-24.tar.gz >> >> * installing to library ‘/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1’ >> * installing *source* package ‘lattice’ ... >> ** package ‘lattice’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> ** libs >> sh: 1: 1: not found > > Same here. However, notice that some install messages printed, so the > install started, it just failed partway through. > > >> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lattice’ >> * removing ‘/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/lattice’ >> >> I then looked at the help for R CMD INSTALL and saw debug flag so I did: >> $ sudo R CMD INSTALL -d lattice_0.20-24.tar.gz >> processing ‘lattice_0.20-24.tar.gz’ >> a file >> * installing to library ‘/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1’ >> * build_help_types= >> * DBG: 'R CMD INSTALL' now doing do_install() >> * created lock directory >> ‘/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/00LOCK-lattice’ >> * installing *source* package ‘lattice’ ... >> ** package ‘lattice’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> ** libs >> about to run R CMD SHLIB -o lattice.so init.c threeDplot.c >> sh: 1: 1: not found >> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lattice’ >> * removing ‘/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/lattice’ > > So it looks as though R CMD SHLIB is the step that failed. You can look it > up in Writing R Externals, it is supposed to compile those C files into the > output lattice.so. Something is going wrong here. > My guess is that you don't have the compiler installed, or R CMD SHLIB is > looking in the wrong place, or something like that. > >> >> >> I then did >> $ cd lattice/src >> $ R CMD SHLIB -d -o lattice.so init.c threeDplot.c >> sh: 1: 1: not found >> >> I'm interested in two things. >> 1 does anyone know what's going on? >> 2. how could I have figured this out myself? What could I have done >> differently for the R CMD SHLIB command to get more output (for example >> where this line of code was)? > > You can look at the online help within R, ?SHLIB, and it will tell you that > -n will give you some diagnostic information.
Yes this is useful. I thought that -d would provide more useful info than -n but both are helpful. > You can also try > > R CMD SHLIB --help > > to see a bit more. > > One other thing you can do if you need to ask here again, is to post system > and version information printed by R by sessionInfo(). And please don't > post in HTML. Done. (I've now checked "plain text" in GMail which I think should to the trick). I will do more reading and experimenting. I think for now I should just learn R better before experimenting further with devel version. I already learned a lot even though I did not succeed in package installation so it was a good lesson. Thank you for your useful replies and for your work on R. I follow this list now and am learning a lot from your email responses. Thanks for your patience, Berta > > Duncan Murdoch > > >> >> I have read R installation and administration manual but I did not >> understand a lot so I'm probably missing something that is in there but >> I'm >> not sure what. >> >> Thank you for your patience, >> >> Roberta >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
