The good news is that Christopher Chimelis has compiled and successfully run R-0.62.1 on a DEC Alpha running Linux (Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 for Alpha). He needed to set the -mieee flag to the compiler which, for that system, is the egcc compiler from the egcs system. The bad news is that I can get R-0.62.1 to compile on a DEC Alpha running Digital Unix 4.0 with the gcc 2.7.2 compiler and using the -ieee flag but it still generates a floating point exception before it gets to the first prompt. -- Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel 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-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._