Hello Prof. Ripley, I believe I downloaded R-2.7.1 from sunfreeware.com (and now going back to my notes realize that the foreign package is not included with it).
They currently have R-2.7.2 available with the foreign package again not included. I'll give R-2.8.1 a try. 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 -----Original Message----- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:02 AM To: Sarosh Jamal Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] foreign package install on Solaris 10 + R-2.7.1 On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Sarosh Jamal wrote: > 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. It is a platform we test on. WHat is not supported is 2.7.1, so please update to at least 2.8.1 (as requested in the posting guide). Something is wrong with your R installation: 'foreign' should be known to R 2.7.1, *and* installed as part of the basic installation. So re-installing seems the best option, especially as an update is in order. > 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: > ========================================== > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > -- 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 ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
