I am new to R. Just installed it on an SGI running IRIX5.3. The install seemed to go fine. Some basic commands worked as did the demo(). However, I get the following when trying to run help at the command line in R.> help()Error in gsub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended) : POSIX regular expressions not available>My best guess is that configure was unable to find regcomp. Is that the problem? If so, what is it and how do I fix it. Other suggestions? Thanks, mg -- Michael Gass Department of Mathematics phone: 320 363-3090 St. John's University email: mgass at csbsju.edu Collegeville, MN 56321-3000 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
mgass:
>
> I am new to R. Just installed it on an SGI running IRIX5.3. The install
> seemed to go fine. Some basic commands worked as did the demo().
However,
> I get the following when trying to run help at the command line in R.
>
> > help()
> Error in gsub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended) : POSIX
regular expressions not available
> >
>
> My best guess is that configure was unable to find regcomp. Is that
> the problem? If so, what is it and how do I fix it. Other
> suggestions?
I solved the problem by installing the GNU regulrar expression library
'rx'. I'll forward my last message about it I posted to r-devel.
(Note: it was about 0.61.1. May be, things have changed!)
May be this helps...
--
=====================================================================Hubert
Palme Bergische Universitaet-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
Computing Center
D-42097 Wuppertal
Email: palme at uni-wuppertal.de (Germany)
http://www.hrz.uni-wuppertal.de/hrz/personen/h_palme.html
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help 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-help-request at
stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._