On 09-Apr-05 Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
The known problems are in the file
http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/R.check/r-devel/norm-00check.txt
No showstoppers, so given the saga of Ted's connectivity, I would suggest waiting for the release on April 18.
There are no declared dependencies, nor did I find any searching the code.
Thanks for the pointer. Yes, they look innocuous enough. On the precautionary principle, however, it would be worth dealing with the ".Fortran" warnings, since this would safeguard against the possibility of name clash if some other package used the same names.
Question 1: I take it that all that's needed here is to search for all such calls, e.g.
.Fortran("tobsn", ...)
and make sure that it one becomes
.Fortran("tobsn", ... ,PACKAGE=norm)
and so on?
Yes, but PACKAGE="norm" (quotes!)
This could be done without installing any new R (though being able to check against the latest would be added assurance), as also could be possible amendements related to the "Rd" warnings (which, however, only affect "help" and other documentation issues).
None the less,
Question 2. It would still be interesting to test out the compilability of the latest R on the machine I would be installing the new one on anyway (SuSE Linux 7.2 from 2001), since this would have oldish math libs ...
I think I have sussed out how to keep different versions of R on the same machine, namely:
a) Edit /usr/bin/R and change
R_HOME_DIR=/usr/lib/R
to
R_HOME_DIR=/usr/lib/R-x.y.z
as appropriate.
b) Rename the directory /usr/lib/R to /usr/lib/R-x.y.z
c) Rename /usr/bin/R to /usr/bin/R-x.y.z
d) (pro tem) Make a symbolic link
ln -s /usr/bin/R-x.y.z /usr/bin/R
No, it is much simpler (and cleaner) to specify the installation directory using
./configure --prefix=/the/path/to/R-2.0.1
After make, make install, you can start R-2.0.1 by
/the/path/to/R-2.0.1/bin/R
Uwe
Then one can install a new R without thinking about it, provided one remembers to delete the symbolic link before starting (or will the new installation do this all by itself?).
Have I missed anything?
Thanks, and best wishes, Ted.
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