R help - Dec 2004 - R on Irix 6.5 fails when trying to load external data?

I've previously installed R on Solaris and everything went fine there.

I'm now trying to install on Irix 6.5 (about which, unfortunately, I 
have less than thorough knowledge) and it is failing.  R itself seems to 
be working okay.  Initially, Irix's dumb make program didn't understand 
some Makefile syntax in the tests, so I just ignored them and installed it.

After the installation, I tried to run some demos, but when I typed 
demo(graphics), for example, it said "Error in demo(graphics) : No demo 
found for topic 'graphics'".  But when I copied-and-pasted the
commands
from doing the same thing under Solaris, everything worked fine.  Until 
I got to the commands that tried to deal with the iris dataset, to which 
it responded:
> Error in pairs(iris[1:4], main = "Edgar Anderson's Iris
Data", font.main = 4,  :
>         Object "iris" not found
So I started over and built gmake for Irix, hoping that the Irix make 
had done something wrong somewhere, but other than not having to tweak 
the check makefiles, nothing seems to be fixed.  Now that I can get the 
tests to run, the first test fails also due to not being able to load 
external datasets:
> > sw <- swiss[1:5, 1:4]  # select a manageable subset
> Error: Object "swiss" not found
> Execution halted
I don't know what's failing to load.  The files iris.R and swiss.R would
seem to be in the proper locations, but, then again, neither Solaris nor 
Irix system call traces show R trying to open them at any point.

I'd appreciate it if someone could give me some pointers.  It's 
important to note that I know virtually nothing about R -- I'm just a 
sysadmin asked to install R for the real users -- so treat me like an idiot.

-Bitt Faulk

William Faulk <wfaulk at icoria.com> writes:
> I've previously installed R on Solaris and everything went fine there.
> 
> I'm now trying to install on Irix 6.5 (about which, unfortunately, I
> have less than thorough knowledge) and it is failing.  R itself seems
> to be working okay.  Initially, Irix's dumb make program didn't
> understand some Makefile syntax in the tests, so I just ignored them
> and installed it.
> 
> After the installation, I tried to run some demos, but when I typed
> demo(graphics), for example, it said "Error in demo(graphics) : No
> demo found for topic 'graphics'".  But when I
copied-and-pasted the
> commands from doing the same thing under Solaris, everything worked
> fine.  Until I got to the commands that tried to deal with the iris
> dataset, to which it responded:
> 
> > Error in pairs(iris[1:4], main = "Edgar Anderson's Iris
Data",
> > font.main = 4,  :         Object "iris" not found
> 
> So I started over and built gmake for Irix, hoping that the Irix make
> had done something wrong somewhere, but other than not having to tweak
> the check makefiles, nothing seems to be fixed.  Now that I can get
> the tests to run, the first test fails also due to not being able to
> load external datasets:
> 
> > > sw <- swiss[1:5, 1:4]  # select a manageable subset
> > Error: Object "swiss" not found
> > Execution halted
> 
> I don't know what's failing to load.  The files iris.R and swiss.R
> would seem to be in the proper locations, but, then again, neither
> Solaris nor Irix system call traces show R trying to open them at any
> point.
> 
> I'd appreciate it if someone could give me some pointers.  It's
> important to note that I know virtually nothing about R -- I'm just a
> sysadmin asked to install R for the real users -- so treat me like an
> idiot.
Oooh, that's tempting ;-) Unfortunately, I can't spot that you've
done
anything really idiotic. You did clean up and start from scratch after
building gmake, right? The best idea I can come up with is that you
might have a dud "install" command sitting somewhere and getting in
the way. I believe this has tripped IRIX users before, but I could be
wrong. 

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