Thank you. I am compiling it now... Costas
On 14 Ιουν 2005, at 10:13 ΜΜ, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You need to use R-patched, nowadays 2.1.1 beta, not the released R > 2.1.0. > As far as I know it is fixed there. > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Constantinos Antoniou wrote: > > >> Hello all, >> >> This may be aimed for r-devel, but I encountered this as an R-user >> and not an R-developer so I start here (having said that, please >> direct me to R-devel if you think this is appropriate. I am not >> cross- >> posting, as I believe this is bad netiquette). >> >> I am a recent, but extremely happy R-user (especially after getting >> my own copy of MASS 2002). My adventures started when I wanted to use >> Rpy to use R also from within python. I compiled R (2.1.0) after >> configuring it as follows: >> >> ./configure --enable-R-shlib --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with- >> lapack --with-aqua >> >> where --enable-R-shlib is required by Rpy. >> >> I then compiled Rpy-0.4.2.1 and I was able to call R from within >> python. So far so good... >> >> I then -naively- tried to start R.app. After less than a bounce on >> the dock... it would not start. [Sorry, I do not remember what >> problem was showing up in the console...] >> >> So, I figured I had to also compile R.app. I got the code via: >> >> svn co https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/Mac-GUI Mac- >> GUI (executed this command yesterday) >> >> and compiled it as per the instructions... And R.app launches just >> fine. >> >> Now, the issue comes when I try to install a(ny) package (via the GUI >> package installer of R.app). I then get the following message: >> >> "Package installation failed. Package installation was not >> successful. Please see the R console for details" >> >> And the R console says: >> >> "Error in install.packages(c("dyn"), lib = "/Library/Frameworks/ >> R.framework/Resources/library", : >> couldn't find function ".install.macbinary"" >> >> I see that this has been encountered before and resolved (at least >> Prof. Ripley saw what was wrong) as per the following thread: >> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-May/033115.html >> >> But I am not sure what needs to be done on my part so that I am not >> affected from it. >> >> > str(.Platform) >> List of 6 >> $ OS.type : chr "unix" >> $ file.sep : chr "/" >> $ dynlib.ext: chr ".so" >> $ GUI : chr "X11" >> $ endian : chr "big" >> $ pkgType : chr "source" >> > R.version.string >> [1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-04-18" >> >> >> gcc version 4.0.0 >> >> [Please let me know what other information may be relevant] >> >> >> Thanking you in advance, >> >> Costas >> >> >> -- >> Constantinos Antoniou, Ph.D. >> Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering >> National Technical University of Athens >> 5, Iroon Polytechniou str. GR-15773, Athens, Greece >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [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 >> >> > > -- > 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 > > -- Constantinos Antoniou, Ph.D. Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering National Technical University of Athens 5, Iroon Polytechniou str. GR-15773, Athens, Greece ______________________________________________ [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
