If you get the R source via svn, then you need to run tools/rsync- recommended to get the recommended packages. If you download the tarball from CRAN then these are already included.
Martyn On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:42 +0100, Gavin Simpson wrote: > Dear list, > > I just hit an error that stopped my make && make check-devel operation > on my linux box (FC3, i686 P4 2GB RAM). Just to note that I've been > building the development branch(?) for some time and this is the first > hint of a problem. > > 1) updated the src tree using svn update > 2) ran ../configure --with-recommended-package=no from my build directory > 3) got: > R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu > > Source directory: ../src > Installation directory: /usr/local > > C compiler: gcc -O3 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 > C++ compiler: g++ -O3 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 > Fortran compiler: g77 -O3 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 > > Interfaces supported: X11, tcltk > External libraries: readline, BLAS(generic) > Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS > Options enabled: R profiling > > Recommended packages: no > > Note I've editted config.site to compile with optimisations -O3 > 4) did make && make check-devel and get this: > ... > make[5]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/src/library' > >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'graphics' > Formats: text html latex example > make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/src/library' > running code in 'graphics-Ex.R' ... OK > collecting examples for package 'stats' ... > make[5]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/src/library' > >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'stats' > Formats: text html latex example > make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/src/library' > running code in 'stats-Ex.R' ...make[4]: *** [stats-Ex.Rout] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/tests/Examples' > make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/tests/Examples' > make[2]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/tests' > make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/R/devel/build/tests' > make: *** [check-devel] Error 2 > > 5) Looking at stats-Ex.Rout.fail I see this at the end: > > > > ### Name: confint > > ### Title: Confidence Intervals for Model Parameters > > ### Aliases: confint confint.default > > ### Keywords: models > > > > ### ** Examples > > > > fit <- lm(100/mpg ~ disp + hp + wt + am, data=mtcars) > > confint(fit) > 2.5 % 97.5 % > (Intercept) -0.774822875 2.256118188 > disp -0.002867999 0.008273849 > hp -0.001400580 0.011949674 > wt 0.380088737 1.622517536 > am -0.614677730 0.926307310 > > confint(fit, "wt") > 2.5 % 97.5 % > wt 0.3800887 1.622518 > > > > ## from example(glm) > > counts <- c(18,17,15,20,10,20,25,13,12) > > outcome <- gl(3,1,9); treatment <- gl(3,3) > > glm.D93 <- glm(counts ~ outcome + treatment, family=poisson()) > > confint(glm.D93) > Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'MASS' > Execution halted > > But as there are no recommended packages this fails as indicated. So is > there something wrong with what I'm doing (i.e. something recent in the > last week has changed that I missed in NEWS) or is this a bug in the > tests or examples? > > Cheers > > Gav ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel