Dear Michael, thank's for your quick answer. Yes, I've thought about the sudo option which should work with RODBC as you stated, but probably it won't with a bunch of other R-libraries suffering the same problem. Anyway, this is the installation on a bigger system and the system adminstrator doesn't think giving me the rights for sudo is a good solution - in particular, if similar installations didn't require this in the past.
Somehow I was hoping to find a way to see the content of the `config.log' for more details, but if it really gets written to disk it seems to disappear within milliseconds thereafter. I'll try the R-devel list to suggest an argument allowing to display or keep this file. Wolfgang 2012/4/18 Michael Rutter <[email protected]> > On 04/18/2012 12:24 PM, Wolfgang Raffelsberger wrote: > >> Dear list, >> >> as I started installing R-2.15.0 on a Red Hat 4.5.1-4 as well a Ubuntu >> 10.04.3 systems. >> While the basic installation went fine (like the previous R-2.14.2), now >> I'm having trouble installing almost one third of the additional libraries >> I want (which installed flawlessly with R-2.14.2), among them RODBC for >> which I show the message below (obtained on Ubuntu) : >> >> surf_forInstallation_> R CMD INSTALL RODBC_1.3-5.tar.gz >> * installing to library '/linux/biolo/R_surf/R-2.15.0/**lib64/R/library' >> * installing *source* package 'RODBC' ... >> ** package 'RODBC' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> checking for gcc... >> gcc -std=gnu99 >> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C >> compiler cannot create executables >> See `config.log' for more details. >> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RODBC' >> * removing '/linux/biolo/R_surf/R-2.15.0/**lib64/R/library/RODBC' >> >> >> In fact, I get identical messages on our Red Hat 4.5.1-4 and the Ubuntu >> 10.04.3 systems mentioned above. >> Obviously something with our C compiler(s) didn't work out. >> In order to learn more about the problem I tried to look at config.log >> mentioned in the installation-message above, however, I cannot find >> the file, neither in my current path nor in >> /linux/biolo/R_surf/R-2.15.0/**lib64/R/library . >> Obviously the RODBC directory doesn't exist any more when the installation >> attempt ends. >> >> Any hints ? >> I'm new to the Debian-list, but at least I haven't seen similar (recent) >> posts on R-help or the bioconductor lists. >> > > Wolfgang, > > For the Ubuntu box, I would start by using my R PPA found here: > > https://launchpad.net/~**marutter/+archive/rrutter<https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter> > > I would also suggest using apt and/or synaptic to install as many packages > as possible from the repositories (sudo apt-get install r-cran-rodbc, for > example). > > The error you received indicates to me you do not have any development > packages or a c++ complier installed. Have you installed "r-base-dev"? > That should install the needed compilers. > > Michael > > -- > Dr. Michael A. Rutter > School of Science > Penn State Erie, The Behrend College > Station Road > Erie, PA 16563 > http://math.bd.psu.edu/**faculty/rutter<http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter> > > ______________________________**_________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-sig-debian<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
