Hello all:
On my linux platform, I ran the commands,
mkdir fBasics unzip fBasics.zip -d fBasics rm fBasics/src/*.o R CMD check fBasics
That was 3 minutes. Next, I copied the files contained in fBasics.Rcheck/fBasics to the R library.
> library(fBasics)
fBasics: Markets, Basic Statistics, Date and TimeError in try(winMenuAdd("Rmetrics")) : couldn't find function "winMenuAdd"
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So, how do I get it to work "with no problems" in Linux??
Thanks, Andrew
Janusz Kawczak wrote:
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?
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