Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Kevin E. Thorpe wrote: > >> Gavin Simpson wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:57 -0400, Kevin E. Thorpe wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I downloaded R-patched (2005-08-04) from CRAN today. >>>> I ran ./configure --enable-R-shlib >>>> >>>> I received the error message: >>>> >>>> checking for recommended packages... no >>>> configure: error: Some of the recommended packages are missing >>>> Use --without-recommended-packages if this was intentional >>> >>> >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> So was this intentional? >> >> >> >> No, it wasn't. >> >> >>>> I built a previous version of R-patched successfully on my system >>>> which is running the SuSE 9,2 Pro Linux distribution. I untarred the >>>> tar ball into the same directory I did my last build on in case that's >>>> important. >>>> >>>> The only other differences between this attempt and my successful build >>>> are: >>>> >>>> 1. I did not use --enable-R-shlib last time. >>>> 2. I found and installed the blas libraries for this build. >>>> >>>> Have I messed up or made an erroneous assumption along the way? >>> >>> >>> >>> Yes and No. You obviously haven't compiled R recently. If you haven't >>> got the recommended packages in the source you are compiling, configure >>> now gives an error, which quite clearly states (and you've quoted it in >>> your email!) that it cannot find (some of) the recommended packages. >> >> >> >> Actually, I compiled it about a week ago. Here is my current version. >> >> > version >> _ >> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu >> arch i686 >> os linux-gnu >> system i686, linux-gnu >> status Patched >> major 2 >> minor 1.1 >> year 2005 >> month 07 >> day 28 >> language R >> >> When I compiled that version, I did my "tar xzf" to a clean directory >> and did not receive that error. >> >> >>> A solution - again given by the error message you quote! - is: >>> >>> ./configure --enable-R-shlib --without-recommended-packages >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> >>> That should clear things up. >> >> >> >> I realise that would clear it up. I was puzzled why I got this message >> in the first place, given I didn't get it last week. > > > I believe there are two kinds of tar files. The daily snapshots don't > include the recommended packages, the releases do. > > Or perhaps the test is a recent addition.
Both versions were R-patched.tar.gz as opposed to the devel sets which looks like it's actually a link to the most recent. Maybe I incorrectly assumed that the patched tarballs contained the recommended packages. > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> >>> Other wise you need to cd to the R directory (where you have the source >>> code), and then execute ./tools/rsync-recommended and then run your >>> configure command. >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> G >> >> >> >> Thanks for the rsync tip. Anyway, running rsync-recommended did the trick. Thanks -- Kevin E. Thorpe Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 416.946.8081 Fax: 416.971.2462 ______________________________________________ [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
