A useful clue, Brian. Maybe this is the reason as foreign.ts.out contains:
* Installing *source* package 'foreign' ... /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/R-2.0.1/bin/INSTALL: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied ERROR: configuration failed for package 'foreign' Does this try and execute from /tmp by any chance? I had a similar problem recently because /tmp is mounted (rw,noexec,nosuid) for security reasons. I had to alter /etc/fstab temporarily and reboot as /tmp is used by many things. The others installed so far have 0 size: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 15:19 VR.ts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 15:19 boot.ts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196 Dec 1 15:20 foreign.ts.out -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 15:20 cluster.ts John John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44(0)161 445 4951/G:+44(0)7717758675 www.quantex-research.com On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, John Logsdon wrote: > > > I have a compilation problem on FC2, 2xXeon box. > > > > The following dialogue output from the end of the compilation illustrates: > > > > [very large snipping sound ...] > > * DONE (cluster) > > begin installing recommended package foreign > > make[2]: *** [foreign.ts] Error 1 > > make[2]: Leaving directory > > `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/R-2.0.1/src/library/Recommended' > > Take a look at the file foreign.out in that directory. (R-devel does this > better, by cat-ing the file at that point.) > > -- > 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