On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am installing R on a Sun Solaris 64-bit machine. I followed the > instructions in the "R Installation and Administration" guide. I am amazed > at how much is going on during the installation process and I congratulate > the people who have put all this together for the ones amongst us who don't > have the required skills to do it. > > The installation went fairly well I think, I got the following Warnings > from "configure". I guess that the required packages to build the > different R manuals were not found on the machine, I am a little surprised > regarding the PDF manuals since Acrobat reader is installed and > "/opt/Acrobat5/bin" is on the PATH; emacs is also installed and in the PATH > variable? > > configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R manuals > configure: WARNING: you cannot build info versions of the R manuals > configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
You probably don't have tex, pdftex nor makeinfo installed. > "make" ran with no complaints. "make check" ended with the following > messages, is that a concern, should I pursue the installation or is this > realy a fatal error as the message states? If so what should I do > differently? > > running tests of Internet and socket functions > expect some differences > running code in 'internet.R' ...*** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `internet.Rout' > Current working directory /actuaria/application/R-1.8.1/tests > *** Error code 1 (ignored) Look in the file tests/internet.Rout.fail. It is probably an authentication problem (might you need a proxy set?), but it would be wise to track it a bit further. -- 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://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
