Dear all
yesterday I got around to install R-1.5.1 on my machine at home which,
admittedly, is running a very old version of RedHat Linux. I noticed
two things:
1) My pdflatex version is too old to produce the pdf version of the
manuals. `./configure' checks whether a recent version of makeinfo
is installed and tells you whether you can produce the info version or
not. (I was told I couldn't, another reason to upgrate the machine.)
But during configuration there don't seem to be any check whether the
pdflatex is recent enough. You might want to consider to add such a
check.
2) `./configure' checks whether Perl 5.004 (or later) is installed.
On my machine Perl 5.00405 is installed and the installation went
ahead without problems. However, when I then tried to install
R-1.5.1-recommended by issuing the command
R CMD INSTALL *.tar.gz
in the appropriate directory, I received complaints about my Perl
version. Essentially, R wanted all of a sudden Perl 5.005 (or
later). An edited version of what I saw on my terminal is included
below. I got the same kind of error message when I used from within R
`update.packages' and `install.packages' to update/install some
packages that are not in R-1.5.1-recommended.
As far as I can tell, the installation of the packages went ahead fine
except that the `TITLE' file for each of these packages is empty.
Hence, I guess the error message is produced when R tries to generate
and install the `TITLE' file. However, the `TITLE' files for the
packages in the base distribution are fine. This leaves me wondering
why during the base installation Perl 5.004 (or later) is good enough
for producing the `TITLE' file but for `R CMD INSTALL' Perl 5.005 (or
later) is required.
Cheers,
Berwin
----- Edited output from attempt to install R-1.5.1-recommended -----
absentia:/opt/R/R-1.5.1-recommended$ R CMD INSTALL *.tar.gz
Contains: MASS class nnet spatial
* Installing *source* package 'KernSmooth' ...
** libs
[...]
gcc -shared -o KernSmooth.so blkest.o cp.o dgedi.o dgefa.o dgesl.o linbin.o
linbin2D.o locpoly.o rlbin.o sdiag.o sstdiag.o -L/usr/local/lib
-L/usr/local/share/icon.9.3.1/ilib
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2
-L/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib -lreadline -ldl -lncurses -lg2c -lm
** R
** data
Perl 5.005 required--this is only version 5.00405, stopped at
/usr/local/lib/R/share/perl/maketitle.pl line 4.
** help
>>> Building/Updating help pages for package `KernSmooth'
Formats: text html latex example
* DONE (KernSmooth)
* Installing *source* package 'MASS' ...
** libs
gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES
-mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c MASS.c -o MASS.o
gcc -shared -o MASS.so MASS.o
** R
** data
** inst
Perl 5.005 required--this is only version 5.00405, stopped at
/usr/local/lib/R/share/perl/maketitle.pl line 4.
** help
>>> Building/Updating help pages for package `MASS'
Formats: text html latex example
write.matrix example
* DONE (MASS)
* Installing *source* package 'class' ...
** libs
gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES
-mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c class.c -o class.o
gcc -shared -o class.so class.o
** R
** inst
Perl 5.005 required--this is only version 5.00405, stopped at
/usr/local/lib/R/share/perl/maketitle.pl line 4.
** help
>>> Building/Updating help pages for package `class'
Formats: text html latex example
* DONE (class)
* Installing *source* package 'nnet' ...
** libs
gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES
-mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c nnet.c -o nnet.o
gcc -shared -o nnet.so nnet.o
** R
** inst
Perl 5.005 required--this is only version 5.00405, stopped at
/usr/local/lib/R/share/perl/maketitle.pl line 4.
** help
>>> Building/Updating help pages for package `nnet'
Formats: text html latex example
* DONE (nnet)
* Installing *source* package 'spatial' ...
** libs
[...]
gcc -shared -o spatial.so init.o krc.o pps.o
** R
** data
** inst
Perl 5.005 required--this is only version 5.00405, stopped at
/usr/local/lib/R/share/perl/maketitle.pl line 4.
** help
>>> Building/Updating help pages for package `spatial'
Formats: text html latex example
* DONE (spatial)
* Installing *source* package 'boot' ...
** R
** data
Perl 5.005 required--this is only version 5.00405, stopped at
/usr/local/lib/R/share/perl/maketitle.pl line 4.
** help
[...]
* DONE (boot)
* Installing *source* package 'cluster' ...
** libs
[...]
gcc -shared -o cluster.so clara.o daisy.o fanny.o meet.o mona.o pam.o spannel.o
twins.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/share/icon.9.3.1/ilib
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2
-L/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib -lreadline -ldl -lncurses -lg2c -lm
** R
** data
Perl 5.005 required--this is only version 5.00405, stopped at
/usr/local/lib/R/share/perl/maketitle.pl line 4.
** help
[...]
* Installing *source* package 'foreign' ...
[...]
** libs
[...]
gcc -shared -o foreign.so SASxport.o avl.o file-handle.o format.o minitab.o
pfm-read.o sfm-read.o spss.o stataread.o
** R
Perl 5.005 required--this is only version 5.00405, stopped at
/usr/local/lib/R/share/perl/maketitle.pl line 4.
** help
[...]
--please do not edit the information below--
Version:
platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch = i686
os = linux-gnu
system = i686, linux-gnu
status =
major = 1
minor = 5.1
year = 2002
month = 06
day = 17
language = R
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