Frank Gibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Following on from suggestions made last week, I decided to install R 2.1.0
on my Linux machine. I'm running into a problem there however, as shown:
make[1]: Entering directory
`/d0/home/fgibbons/tmp/R2.1.0/R-2.1.0/src/library/Recommended'
make[2]: Entering directory
`/d0/home/fgibbons/tmp/R2.1.0/R-2.1.0/src/library/Recommended'
begin installing recommended package VR
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
incomplete literal tree
gzip: VR.tgz: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
ERROR: cannot extract package from 'VR.tgz'
make[2]: *** [VR.ts] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/d0/home/fgibbons/tmp/R2.1.0/R-2.1.0/src/library/Recommended'
make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/d0/home/fgibbons/tmp/R2.1.0/R-2.1.0/src/library/Recommended'
make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2
This is most unusual - I must have built R from source five or six times
going back to 1.5.0 and don't recall any problems like this. Does anyone
have any suggestions about where I might look for the source of this problem.
In particular, I'm interested in using package 'vsn', whose installation is
(I believe) blocked by this problem. I downloaded the source from CRAN this
afternoon, choosing the version 2.1.0 'stable' code. I don't have sysadmin
privileges on the build machine, but this has never been a problem before -
I just pass --prefix=$HOME to the configure script. FWIW, I believe the
sysadmins use Debian.
This is a pretty time-critical matter for me (I wouldn't have chosen to
upgrade now, were it not for my earlier problem with merge when there are
empty labels), any assistance greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Well, at this point, you might as well wait for 2.1.1 to come out
tomorrow around noon (CEST). If you have R_HOME in your environment,
you should get rid of it, but I don't see how that could cause the
subsequent errors. My best guess is that the tarball got botched in
the download somehow.
BTW, Linux does not suffice for us to identify your distribution
much less the version. I think /etc/issue will tell you in most cases
if you don't know.
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