Hm, we'll likely never find out. It looks a bit like a race condition or a Makefile deficiency in which some dependencies are not explicitly recorded (so that it tries to copy files before they have been made). I suppose that could happen if you try "make install" w/o a preceding "make".
-pd > On 06 Mar 2016, at 04:54 , Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > > Thanks Peter. I tried running the uninstalled R; it worked. I checked on > the existence of FAQ, etc. --- yep everything was there. I don't know about > over-zealous virus checkers; I haven't overtly installed any such. > > So, mystified, I started all over again from scratch. This time it worked; > seamlessly. > > Totally mysterious. Story of my life. Be that as it were, all systems are > go now, and my package checking was successful. > > Sorry for the noise. > > cheers, > > Rolf > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > On 06/03/16 03:10, peter dalgaard wrote: >> >>> On 05 Mar 2016, at 03:35 , Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I am trying to install the latest development version of R so as to be able >>> to perform a package check according the rules specified for CRAN. >>> >>> I performed the following steps: >>> >>> (1) Downloaded R-devel.tar.gz, dated 04-Mar-2016 03:21, from CRAN >>> (2) Upacked. >>> (3) Created directory "BldDir" next to the directory "R-devel". >>> (4) Changed directories to BldDir. >>> (5) Executed ../R-devel/configure --with-tcltk --with-cairo . >>> (6) Executed make . >>> (7) Executed sudo make install . >>> >>> I got the error messages: >>> . >>> . >>> . >>>> mkdir -p -- /usr/local/lib64/R/doc >>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `FAQ': No such file or directory >>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `RESOURCES': No such file or directory >>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS': No such file or directory >>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS.pdf': No such file or directory >>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS.rds': No such file or directory >>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS': No such file or directory >>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS.pdf': No such file or directory >>>> make[1]: *** [install-sources2] Error 1 >>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rolf/Desktop/R-dev-inst/BldDir/doc' >>>> make: *** [install] Error 1 >>> >>> Can someone/anyone tell me what I am missing or doing wrong? >>> >> >> Beats me. & I just checked that make install works on my system (usually, I >> just run test versions out of their build dirs). >> >> You might check a couple of things though: >> >> - does ~/Desktop/R-dev-inst/BldDir/bin/R work? >> - does ~/Desktop/R-dev-inst/BldDir/doc/FAQ et al. actually exist? >> - is there an overzealous virus checker active (those have been known to >> move fresh files to "safe locations" right under peoples feet...) >> >> -pd >> >> >>> Ta. > > > -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
