Re: [R] Problem configuring R-patched
Sorry to chime in a bit late here.. Kevin == Kevin E Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:13:05 -0400 writes: Kevin 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. eeehm, no: The daily snapshots do contain the recommended packages, and have for quite a while now. Or perhaps the test is a recent addition. only for a pretty generous definition of recent. To be honest, I don't know what Kevin's problem could be. The daily snapshots are really produced here at ETH Zurich and daily mirrored from here to CRAN. I can see that the R-patched_2005-08-04.tar.gz does contain the recommended packages. Maybe your download wasn't completed; your disk full; or you have a gnome in your computer who occasionally deletes some of your files? I've had similar feelings a few times in the past... Kevin Both versions were R-patched.tar.gz as opposed to the Kevin devel sets which looks like it's actually a link to Kevin the most recent. Maybe I incorrectly assumed that Kevin Maybe I incorrectly assumed that the patched tarballs Kevin contained the recommended packages. actually that was a correct assumption. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Problem configuring R-patched
Martin Maechler wrote: Duncan I believe there are two kinds of tar files. The daily Duncan snapshots don't include the recommended packages, the Duncan releases do. eeehm, no: The daily snapshots do contain the recommended packages, and have for quite a while now. Duncan Or perhaps the test is a recent addition. only for a pretty generous definition of recent. To be honest, I don't know what Kevin's problem could be. The daily snapshots are really produced here at ETH Zurich and daily mirrored from here to CRAN. I can see that the R-patched_2005-08-04.tar.gz does contain the recommended packages. Maybe your download wasn't completed; your disk full; or you have a gnome in your computer who occasionally deletes some of your files? I've had similar feelings a few times in the past... Kevin Both versions were R-patched.tar.gz as opposed to the Kevin devel sets which looks like it's actually a link to Kevin the most recent. Maybe I incorrectly assumed that Kevin Maybe I incorrectly assumed that the patched tarballs Kevin contained the recommended packages. actually that was a correct assumption. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich I still don't know why it didn't work observe (sorry for the wrapping): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/src tar tvzf R-patched.tar.gz | grep Recommended drwxr-xr-x local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/ -rw-r--r-- local/local2394 2005-04-18 08:51:32 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/Makefile.in -rw-r--r-- local/local 20 2005-04-18 08:51:32 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/.cvsignore -rw-r--r-- local/local 25656 2005-04-18 08:58:17 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/KernSmooth_2.22-15.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- local/local 465529 2005-07-28 11:45:14 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/VR_7.2-17.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- local/local 179895 2005-07-28 11:45:14 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/boot_1.2-23.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- local/local 190975 2005-07-03 11:45:11 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/cluster_1.10.1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- local/local 273520 2005-07-14 11:45:08 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/foreign_0.8-9.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- local/local 205131 2005-07-27 11:45:14 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/lattice_0.12-1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- local/local 240276 2005-07-12 11:46:13 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/mgcv_1.3-4.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- local/local 662143 2005-07-26 11:45:13 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/nlme_3.1-62.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- local/local 110072 2005-04-19 11:45:20 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/rpart_3.1-23.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- local/local 846737 2005-06-10 11:45:23 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/survival_2.18.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/VR.tgz - VR_7.2-17.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/boot.tgz - boot_1.2-23.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/cluster.tgz - cluster_1.10.1.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/foreign.tgz - foreign_0.8-9.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/KernSmooth.tgz - KernSmooth_2.22-15.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/lattice.tgz - lattice_0.12-1.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/nlme.tgz - nlme_3.1-62.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/mgcv.tgz - mgcv_1.3-4.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/rpart.tgz - rpart_3.1-23.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx local/local 0 2005-08-03 20:45:50 R-patched/src/library/Recommended/survival.tgz - survival_2.18.tar.gz It appears to me that the recommended packages were in the tarball. I suppose it is largely immaterial now given I have successfully re-built R. Thanks your help. -- 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 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
[R] Problem configuring R-patched
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 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? 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 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Problem configuring R-patched
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? 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. A solution - again given by the error message you quote! - is: ./configure --enable-R-shlib --without-recommended-packages ^ That should clear things up. 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 -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [T] +44 (0)20 7679 5522 ENSIS Research Fellow [F] +44 (0)20 7679 7565 ENSIS Ltd. ECRC [E] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk UCL Department of Geography [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ 26 Bedford Way[W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ London. WC1H 0AP. %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Problem configuring R-patched
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 major2 minor1.1 year 2005 month07 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. 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. -- 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 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Problem configuring R-patched
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 major2 minor1.1 year 2005 month07 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. 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. __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Problem configuring R-patched
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 major2 minor1.1 year 2005 month07 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 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
