Well, for a start how about ./configure --with-iconv=no
and see where you get from there? I don't know where "make" lives on your machine, but it must be somewhere: /usr/ccs/bin/make ?? find / -name "make" ? Ben Bolker Powers, Randall - BLS wrote: > I am running 2.6.0 because I can't seem to get 2.8.1 configured > properly. > > When I do ./configure, it goes through a long list, and ends with > > configure: error: --with-iconv=yes (default) and a suitable iconv is > not available > > When I run make, I get the message below. > > > # make > make: not found > > So does anybody have any help regarding how do get the install to work? > Otherwise, I am stuck with 2.6.0. > > Thanks > > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Ben Bolker > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:49 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Eror message: not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0 > > > Is there any reason you can't just install an up-to-date version of R > (R 2.8.1), from cran.us.r-project.org (or your favorite mirror, see > www.r-project.org) and see if that fixes the problem? Installing R on > SunOS is not quite the breeze that it is on MacOS, Windows, or Linux, > but it's not that bad ... and you are much more likely to get help from > the list if you make it worth people's while to help you by either (1) > explaining why you are stuck with an old version [regulatory > compliance/mission-critical old R software] or (2) installing recent R > and showing that the problem persists. > > Ben Bolker > > > Powers, Randall - BLS wrote: >> >> >>> Hello R-help, >>> >>> >>> We are running R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03). I believe that I got it >>> from www.sunfreeware.com. A number of the packages that we attempt to > >>> download from http://www.r-project.org/ give us the error message >>> below when we attempt to run them. >>> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Eror-message%3A--not-a-valid-package----installed- > %3C-2.0.0-tp21962051p21962788.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Ben Bolker Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida bol...@ufl.edu / www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker GPG key: www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker/benbolker-publickey.asc
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