Hi dear all It's the first time for me to install a developmental version of R, I came across following errors, my system is DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS" I downloaded the dev version of R in cran R source, and downloaded the recommended packages by using wget as described in R manual, and run ./tools/link-recommended ./configure runs successfully make give me following errors ########################## begin installing recommended package cluster * installing *source* package ‘cluster’ ... ** libs make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/Rtmpgxd64f/R.INSTALL33128ce7/cluster/src' gcc -std=gnu99 -I/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/include -I/usr/local/include -fpic -g -O2 -c clara.c -o clara.o gfortran -fpic -g -O -c daisy.f -o daisy.o gfortran -fpic -g -O -c dysta.f -o dysta.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/include -I/usr/local/include -fpic -g -O2 -c fanny.c -o fanny.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/include -I/usr/local/include -fpic -g -O2 -c init.c -o init.o gfortran -fpic -g -O -c meet.f -o meet.o gfortran -fpic -g -O -c mona.f -o mona.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/include -I/usr/local/include -fpic -g -O2 -c pam.c -o pam.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/include -I/usr/local/include -fpic -g -O2 -c sildist.c -o sildist.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/include -I/usr/local/include -fpic -g -O2 -c spannel.c -o spannel.o gfortran -fpic -g -O -c twins.f -o twins.o gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o cluster.so clara.o daisy.o dysta.o fanny.o init.o meet.o mona.o pam.o sildist.o spannel.o twins.o -lgfortran -lm make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/Rtmpgxd64f/R.INSTALL33128ce7/cluster/src' installing to /home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/library/cluster/libs ** R Warning in parse(outFile) : invalid input found on input connection '/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/library/cluster/R/cluster' ** data ** moving datasets to lazyload DB ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading Warning in parse(n = -1, file = file) : invalid input found on input connection '/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/library/cluster/R/cluster' ** help Warning in readLines(file, warn = FALSE) : invalid input found on input connection '/tmp/Rtmpgxd64f/R.INSTALL33128ce7/cluster/man/plantTraits.Rd' Warning: /tmp/Rtmpgxd64f/R.INSTALL33128ce7/cluster/man/plantTraits.Rd:69: unexpected END_OF_INPUT 'Structuration de communaut ' *** installing help indices ** building package indices ... ** testing if installed package can be loaded Warning: S3 methods ‘clusplot.default’, ‘clusplot.partition’, ‘pltree.twins’, ‘silhouette.default’, ‘silhouette.clara’, ‘silhouette.partition’, ‘plot.agnes’, ‘plot.diana’, ‘plot.mona’, ‘plot.partition’, ‘plot.silhouette’, ‘print.mona’, ‘print.pam’, ‘print.summary.mona’, ‘print.summary.pam’, ‘print.summary.silhouette’, ‘summary.mona’, ‘summary.pam’, ‘summary.silhouette’ were declared in NAMESPACE but not found Error in namespaceExport(ns, exports) : undefined exports: clusplot, pltree, silhouette, mona, pam, bannerplot, lower.to.upper.tri.inds, upper.to.lower.tri.inds, meanabsdev, sizeDiss, sortSilhouette ERROR: loading failed * removing ‘/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/library/cluster’ make[2]: *** [cluster.ts] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/src/library/Recommended' make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tengfei/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13/R-devel/src/library/Recommended' make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2 ############# I don't know if I miss sth important or did anything wrong, sorry to bother you guys. Tengfei -- Tengfei Yin MCDB PhD student 1620 Howe Hall, 2274, Iowa State University Ames, IA,50011-2274 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]