R help - Oct 2004 - Incompatibility between R-2.0.0 and Rggobi_1.0-0.

Hello,
I was trying to install Rggobi in the latest version of R and it gave me 
a compilation error for
 R CMD INSTALL Rggobi_1.0-0.tar.gz

RSGGobi.C: In function RS_GGOBI_init
(R_IsNaNorNA) undeclared (line 77)


I searched for this function in R src files and it was abandoned in 
~/R-2.0.0/src/include/R_ext/Arith.h file.
Only functions

int R_IsNA(double);        /* True for R's NA only */
int R_IsNaN(double);        /* True for special NaN, *not* for NA */


are declared leaving out R_IsNaNorNA.
This funcion was declared in R-1.9.1.

So I changed (R_IsNaNorNA) to (R_IsNA) in  ~/Rggobi/src. Then I built 
Rggobi and installed it using R CMD

Can anyone tell me if there is any other way to do it? Was I right?

Thanks,
Sincerely,
Aruna Buddana,
Intern, Statistics and Data Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratories.

This is discussed in 200update.txt file on developer.r-project.org, which 
tells you the right way to do it.

BTW, the incompatility is of Rggobi_1.0-0 with R-2.0.0 and not the other 
way round.

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Aruna Buddana wrote:
> Hello,
> I was trying to install Rggobi in the latest version of R and it gave me 
> a compilation error for
>  R CMD INSTALL Rggobi_1.0-0.tar.gz
> 
> RSGGobi.C: In function RS_GGOBI_init
> (R_IsNaNorNA) undeclared (line 77)
> 
> 
> I searched for this function in R src files and it was abandoned in 
> ~/R-2.0.0/src/include/R_ext/Arith.h file.
> Only functions
> 
> int R_IsNA(double);        /* True for R's NA only */
> int R_IsNaN(double);        /* True for special NaN, *not* for NA */
> 
> 
> are declared leaving out R_IsNaNorNA.
> This funcion was declared in R-1.9.1.
> 
> So I changed (R_IsNaNorNA) to (R_IsNA) in  ~/Rggobi/src. Then I built 
> Rggobi and installed it using R CMD
> 
> Can anyone tell me if there is any other way to do it? Was I right?
No.


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