>>>>> "AndyL" == Liaw, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:02:26 -0400 writes:
>> From: Brian Ripley >> >> The first thing to ascertain is that R will actually >> build on such a machine -- there have been a lot of >> reports of failure on AIX, and no recent reports of >> success. AndyL> According to our AIX sysadmin, R-1.9.1 actually AndyL> compiles a lot more cleanly than R-1.8.1 and prior. AndyL> I take it the recent reports of difficulties has to AndyL> do with (possibly outdated) GCC. We have no problem AndyL> with xlc/xlf. AndyL> The trouble we're having is getting R to link against AndyL> readline in 64-bit. Haven't figure out how to do AndyL> that yet. Life w/o readline is rather trying... well, all ESS users work without readline, and I think we would find life w/o ESS much more trying... In other words, using ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) gives is you everything and much more than readline {but it does give some of it somewhat differently!} Martin ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html