The FAQ asks you to send bug reports on contributed packages to their manitainer. This is NOT a bug in R.
gbm is a contributed package, and 2.0.1 is not the current release of R. I can confirm it with 2.1.0 on Solaris. On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: The Manager > Version: 2.0.1 > OS: Solaris 9 > Submission from: (NULL) (129.67.80.243) > > >> install.packages("gbm") > trying URL `http://cran.uk.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES' > Content type `text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1' length 52975 bytes > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 51Kb > > trying URL `http://cran.uk.r-project.org/src/contrib/gbm_1.4-2.tar.gz' > Content type `application/x-gzip' length 252551 bytes > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 246Kb > * Installing *source* package 'gbm' ... > ** libs > g++ -I/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -O2 > -c > adaboost.cpp -oadaboost.o > g++ -I/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -O2 > -c > bernoulli.cpp -o bernoulli.o > g++ -I/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -O2 > -c > coxph.cpp -o coxph.o > g++ -I/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -O2 > -c > dataset.cpp -o dataset.o > g++ -I/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -O2 > -c > distribution.cpp -o distribution.o > g++ -I/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -O2 > -c > gaussian.cpp -ogaussian.o > g++ -I/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -O2 > -c > gbm.cpp -o gbm.o > g++ -I/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -O2 > -c > gbm_engine.cpp -o gbm_engine.o > g++ -I/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -O2 > -c > gbmentry.cpp -ogbmentry.o > gbmentry.cpp: In function `SEXPREC* gbm_shrink_pred(SEXPREC*, SEXPREC*, > SEXPREC*, SEXPREC*, SEXPREC*, SEXPREC*, SEXPREC*, SEXPREC*, SEXPREC*, > SEXPREC*)': > gbmentry.cpp:677: error: `NAN' undeclared (first use this function) > gbmentry.cpp:677: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for > each function it appears in.) > make: *** [gbmentry.o] Error 1 > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'gbm' > ** Removing '/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/library/gbm' > ** Restoring previous '/package/R/2.0.1-32bit/lib/R/library/gbm' > > Delete downloaded files (y/N)? y > > Warning message: > Installation of package gbm had non-zero exit status in: > install.packages("gbm") >> q() -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel