I have troubles installing the "SparseM" package on my Debian stable
Linux system.
Debian's version of R is:
platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
arch i386
os linux-gnu
system i386, linux-gnu
status
major 1
minor 5.1
year 2002
month 06
day 17
language R
This is the installation output:
> R CMD INSTALL -l /usr/lib/R/ SparseM_0.36.tar.gz
* Installing *source* package 'SparseM' ...
** libs
g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c bckslv.f -o bckslv.o
g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c chol.f -o chol.o
g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c cholesky.f -o cholesky.o
g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c csr.f -o csr.o
g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c extract.f -o extract.o
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2
-c iohb.c -o iohb.o
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2
-c readwrite.c -o readwrite.o
g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c sparskit.f -o sparskit.o
g77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c subscr.f -o subscr.o
gcc -shared -o SparseM.so bckslv.o chol.o cholesky.o csr.o extract.o
iohb.o readwrite.o sparskit.o
subscr.o -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4 -lreadline -ldl
-lncurses -lg2c-pic -lm -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR
** R
** data
** demo
** inst
** save image
Loading required package: methods
[1] TRUE
[1] "matrix.csr"
Error in conformMethod(signature, mnames, fnames) :
Formal arguments omitted in the method definition cannot be in
the signature: object
Execution halted
ERROR: execution of package source for 'SparseM' failed
The same happens if I try to install it from within R by calling
install.packages("SparseM").
Could anybody help me to get SparseM running?
Thanks in advance
Felix
You need to find a version of SparseM in the CRAN archive of comparable age to your R version (nearly two years), *or*, much better, update your R to 1.9.0 (or the current patched version) Hint to maintainers of packages using S4 methods: you almost certainly need to declare a dependence on a rather recent version of R since the methods code has changed a lot in the last two years. On Wed, 12 May 2004, Felix Salfner wrote:> I have troubles installing the "SparseM" package on my Debian stable > Linux system. > > Debian's version of R is: > platform i386-pc-linux-gnu > arch i386 > os linux-gnu > system i386, linux-gnu > status > major 1 > minor 5.1 > year 2002 > month 06 > day 17 > language R[...] -- 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