William - I don't have an answer for you, just some stream of consciousness rambling about how I would go about diagnosing this, if it were my problem.
In my installation directory (of R-1.7.1 on linux) there is a file config.log which contains all of the configure script's queries and replies. Yes, there is a difference between configuring and compiling, but that file might be one place to start looking for where the problem begins. For me, 'grep gzfile config.log' returns no matching lines. However, 'grep methods config.log' returns three lines which say config.status:884: creating src/library/methods/DESCRIPTION config.status:884: creating src/library/methods/Makefile config.status:884: creating src/library/methods/src/Makefile Seems odd that the 'methods' package would be the only one which fails to unpack. Perhaps the problem is more general, and, likely, more elementary. Ah. When you downloaded the source files, did you set 'binary' in ftp or equivalent ? HTH - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, William D. McCoy wrote: > I just finished compiling today's r-patched (R 1.8.1 patched) on my > old Sparc 20 using gcc 3.3 along with Sun's f77. > > As it was compiling, I noticed an error regarding gzfile. The compile > process left the methods directory and continued on. Obviously, there > was a problem, but I don't have the original error message from the > compiler. After installing R, I get the following error message when > I start R: > > Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > cannot open compressed file > `/usr/local/lib/R/library/methods/R/all.rda' > > A check for the file 'all.rda' showed that it does not exist. I do > have gzip installed and I have libz.so.1.1.4 in /usr/local/lib. I > realize this isn't much to go on, but does anyone have an idea what > might be wrong? Has anyone had a similar error? > > -- > William D. McCoy > Geosciences > University of Massachusetts > Amherst, MA 01003 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
