[R] R-2.6.2 installation (64bit) falling over with the grid package

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick Connolly
It's a long time since I had a problem compiling R, but I've now encountered one with R-2.6.2 on Fedora Core 6 (64bit). The problem arises when the installation process gets to the grid package, the unit.c part in particular. This is the output I get: gcc -std=gnu99 -I../../../../include

Re: [R] R-2.6.2 installation (64bit) falling over with the grid package

2008-02-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It's your system: try unpacking the tarball again. That line is eval(R_fcall3, R_gridEvalEnv); and has no # there. I suspect FC6 systems are thin on the ground (it is end-of-life, I believe), but R-2.6.2.tar.gz has been installed on many, many 64-bit Linux systems (e.g. CRAN

Re: [R] R-2.6.2 installation (64bit) falling over with the grid package

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Sun, 24-Feb-2008 at 10:00AM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | It's your system: try unpacking the tarball again. No surprises there: Brian is spot on again. Thank you Brian. I'd not have thought of trying unpacking again. I thought there would be no stochastic element to such a process.