Hi, I am doing a project to make R-0.61.1 available on 30 IBM RISC/6000 machines running AIX 4.1.5.0. Running the make command works fine after some changes, but R does not behave as it should. Here some examples of error messages which I get:> plot(1:20)Error: Length cannot be negative> hist(1:20)Error in seq(z$l, z$u, length = z$n + 1) : negative length vectors are not allowed> library(mva)Error: invalid number of copies in "rep">I made two changes because of AIX, before starting ./configure and make, so that make was runing without error messages 1. Setting SHLIBLDFLAGS="-shared" in the config.site file 2. deleting the function "double trunc(double x)" in the file src/math/round.c Changes I made because of installing R on an AFS file system are substituting hard links by symbolic links and preventing, due to this changes, the deleting of files. Who has an idea how to make at least the graphic functions working? Thanks Markus -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Douglas Bates
1998-Feb-17 15:27 UTC
R-beta: Re: Compiling for AFS [was: R on AIX running with errors]
Markus Lang <langms at cip.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:> Changes I made because of installing R on an AFS file system are > substituting hard links by symbolic links and preventing, due to this > changes, the deleting of files.Can you give more details on that? As I recall I was able to compile the 0.61.1 sources on an AFS file system without having to mess with peculiarities of hard links and symbolic links. We did have to fiddle around with several scripts when installing S-PLUS but I don't remember doing that with R. For those who don't have experience with AFS, the problem stems from an inability to create a hard link to a file in another directory. File access lists in AFS are specified on a per-directory basis. The argument from Transarc (the AFS vendor) is that when the same file exists simultaneously in two different directories then the user's access rights to that file are not clearly defined. Thus they forbid using hard links that span directories. We have tried to convince them that they should just use the policy that the user's access rights are those corresponding to the path by which they are accessing the file but they don't seem to like that idea. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._