Dear all, I am having trouble trying to install R-1.8.1 on a Sun Solaris 8 (Generic_108528-23 version) machine. The configuration was successful but make check fails. I traced the the problem to the plot() function.> 1 + 1[1] 2> capabilities()jpeg png tcltk X11 GNOME libz http/ftp sockets TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE libxml fifo cledit IEEE754 bzip2 PCRE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE> plot( 1:10 )Bus Error and R terminates to the shell prompt. I have searched the archives with no success. Can anyone kindly help me fix the problem or at least show me how to get more information about the error. Thank you. -- Adaikalavan Ramasamy ramasamy at cancer.org.uk Medical Statistician Centre for Statistics in Medicine http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/csm/ Medical Statistics Group Tel : 01865 226 677 Cancer Research UK Fax : 01865 226 962
"Adaikalavan Ramasamy" <ramasamy at cancer.org.uk> writes:> Dear all, > > I am having trouble trying to install R-1.8.1 on a Sun Solaris 8 > (Generic_108528-23 version) machine. The configuration was successful but > make check fails. I traced the the problem to the plot() function. > > > 1 + 1 > [1] 2 > > capabilities() > jpeg png tcltk X11 GNOME libz http/ftp sockets > TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE > libxml fifo cledit IEEE754 bzip2 PCRE > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE > > plot( 1:10 ) > Bus Error > > and R terminates to the shell prompt. I have searched the archives with no > success. Can anyone kindly help me fix the problem or at least show me how > to get more information about the error.AFAIR, some gcc versions could cause this due to incorrect code generation. (See the platform notes in the Admin manual - sec'n B.7.3 to be specific.) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
See the R-admin manual: this happens for certain broken versions of Solaris-sparc gcc. If that is not the cause we would need to know much more about what you used to build R. We do regularly test on Solaris 8, with gcc 3.3.3 and Forte 7. On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote:> Dear all, > > I am having trouble trying to install R-1.8.1 on a Sun Solaris 8 > (Generic_108528-23 version) machine. The configuration was successful but > make check fails. I traced the the problem to the plot() function. > > > 1 + 1 > [1] 2 > > capabilities() > jpeg png tcltk X11 GNOME libz http/ftp sockets > TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE > libxml fifo cledit IEEE754 bzip2 PCRE > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE > > plot( 1:10 ) > Bus Error > > and R terminates to the shell prompt. I have searched the archives with no > success. Can anyone kindly help me fix the problem or at least show me how > to get more information about the error. > > Thank you. > > -- > Adaikalavan Ramasamy ramasamy at cancer.org.uk > Medical Statistician > Centre for Statistics in Medicine http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/csm/ > Medical Statistics Group Tel : 01865 226 677 > Cancer Research UK Fax : 01865 226 962 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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 > >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595