Hello,
I've been having trouble installing package "spdep" for R-2.7.1 on our Solaris
10 (sparc) server. Namely the two dependencies for this package do not install
properly: "foreign" and "maptools"
I understand that Solaris 10 may not be an officially supported platform but
any help/feedback you can offer would be most appreciated.
I've updated all packages currently installed on this version of R but the
install of package "foreign" complains about an invalid "priority" field in the
DESCRIPTION file. I've not had any issues with the other packages.
I'm including our systemInfo() output here:
==========================================
R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
sparc-sun-solaris2.10
locale:
/en_CA.ISO8859-1/C/C/en_CA.ISO8859-1/C/C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
And, I'm including the transcript from the package install attempt:
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1 /home/sjamal > R
R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or
R packages in publications.
Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for
an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
> install.packages("foreign")
Warning in install.packages("foreign") :
argument 'lib' is missing: using '/home/sjamal/R/sparc-sun-solaris2.10-library
/2.7'
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk
interface ... done trying URL
'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-33.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 315463 bytes (308 Kb) opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 308 Kb
* Installing *source* package 'foreign' ...
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the
C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking
for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU
C compiler... yes checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes checking
for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking whether gcc
-std=gnu99 accepts -Wno-long-long... yes checking how to run the C
preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for
ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for
sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for
inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes
checking byteswap.h usability... no checking byteswap.h presence... no checking
for byteswap.h... no checking for double... yes checking size of double... 8
checking for int... yes checking size of int... 4 checking for long... yes
checking size of long... 4
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
config.status: creating src/swap_bytes.h
config.status: creating src/var.h
Error: Invalid DESCRIPTION file
Invalid Priority field.
Packages with priorities 'base' or 'recommended' or 'defunct-base' must already
be known to R.
See the information on DESCRIPTION files in section 'Creating R packages' of
the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
Execution halted
ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed
** Removing '/home/sjamal/R/sparc-sun-solaris2.10-library/2.7/foreign'
** Restoring previous '/home/sjamal/R/sparc-sun-solaris2.10-library/2.7/foreign'
The downloaded packages are in
/tmp/RtmpkcXy1L/downloaded_packages
Warning message:
In install.packages("foreign") :
installation of package 'foreign' had non-zero exit status
>
I look forward to your insights.
Thank you,
Sarosh
---
Sarosh Jamal
Geographic Computing Specialist
Department of Geography
http://geog.utm.utoronto.ca
Staff co-Chair, United Way Campaign
http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/unitedway
University of Toronto Mississauga
[email protected]
905.569.4497
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