And it seems that this vicious circle continues forever. Before posting these kind of messages can you please read the INSTRUCTIONS. fBasics_190.10051.zip is a COMPILED version of the package, not a source as you claim to be!
It works with no problems; well, at least under Linux. Janusz. "Richard A. O'Keefe" wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mkdir fBasics > unzip fBasics.zip -d fBasics > rm fBasics/src/*.o > R CMD check fBasics > > and that took me about 3 minutes. > > Now me, I just did > > unzip -a fBasics_190.10051.zip > R CMD INSTALL fBasics > rm -rf fBasics > > in a naive and trusting manner. It took me considerably longer than 3 > minutes to learn that this was what I should do, and when I did learn, > I wondered "if it's this simple, why can't R CMD INSTALL do it?" > > Now I discover that it isn't that simple. The installation apparently > went smoothly. This is R, right? Never occurred to me that there might > be problems. > > Now, B-G--R! It turns out that core stuff is supplied as .dll files, > which of course my UltraSPARC can do nothing with. > > The author of the Rmetrics code has a perfect right to provide his code > in any form he wants under any conditions he wants (subject to GPL &c). > In particular, if he wants to provide a distribution which only works under > Windows, that's perfectly OK. > > **BUT** when a distribution is peculiar to one operating system, that really > should be highlighted in big bold letters: this is a WINDOWS BINARY > version, so that people who can't use Windows .DLL files are spared a day > of trying to figure out how to unpack and of doing an installation which > reports no errors at all and of them finding that things do not work. > > There is *NOTHING* on http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/econophysics/R/download.htm > that says "Windows only". Click on "I accept"and the page you arrive at has > nothing in the text anywhere that says "Windows only" or "what to do if not > Windows". (The http://.../R/bin/windows/contrib/1.9 address of the page > was, in retrospect, a big clue, sigh.) > > It would of course be nice if the developers had done > > R CMD check fBasics > > But if you go into the Sources directory, which I suppose you must have, > for each of {fBasics,fExtremes,fOptions,fSeries} there is an > xxx-00check.log.txt, so they _did_ run R CMD check. > > and sorted out the errors, then > R CMD build fBasics > > Those same check logs show errors (like failure to build .dvi files). > > Will it work if I download the Sources packages? > > ______________________________________________ > [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 ______________________________________________ [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
