Hello R-ists Have been lurking on the list for a while, I have noticed recently two problems: 1 There seem to be problems with installing R on SuSe Linux version 5.3. As the list only gets problems and doesn't log the successes, has anyone successfully loaded R on SuSe 5.3? Is this a feature of 0.62.3 only or do the problems apply also to earlier versions. 2 There was a list of outstanding problems from Jim Lindsey that have appeared in 0.62.3 that were not there on 0.62.1. I need to upgrade from RH4.1 Linux and was proposing to use SuSe once the YasT English problem is solved. Upgrading is always quite a time-consuming affair, particularly as I will copy /usr/local, /home and /etc and rebuild completely. So my question is, what R to load? I still have 0.50 on my system and need to upgrade, given that I will use SuSe 5.3. Would you suggest I: a Load 0.62.3, the latest version b Load 0.62.1, which works with Jim's libraries c Wait a little for 0.62.3+x next release which will have these fixed. BTW can I suggest, after the recent RSS News article, that all publications should reference the software used. This should help to promote R and to ensure that the valuable support from all the institutions is retained since citations indexes would show how much it was used. The correct reference for R was on the list a little while ago. John -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>> "John" == John Logsdon <j.logsdon at lancaster.ac.uk> writes:John> BTW can I suggest, after the recent RSS News article, that all John> publications should reference the software used. This should John> help to promote R and to ensure that the valuable support from John> all the institutions is retained since citations indexes would John> show how much it was used. The correct reference for R was on John> the list a little while ago. Can you give us a bit more information about the RSS News article? I may have missed some messages but I don't recall previous reference on this list to such an article. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
John Logsdon <j.logsdon at lancaster.ac.uk> writes:> Hello R-ists > > Have been lurking on the list for a while, I have noticed recently two > problems: > > 1 There seem to be problems with installing R on SuSe Linux > version 5.3. As the list only gets problems and doesn't log the > successes, has anyone successfully loaded R on SuSe 5.3? Is this a > feature of 0.62.3 only or do the problems apply also to earlier versions.It's a feature of SuSE only. Apparently it only affects some of the contributed stuff and compiling with f2c solves it.> 2 There was a list of outstanding problems from Jim Lindsey that > have appeared in 0.62.3 that were not there on 0.62.1. > > I need to upgrade from RH4.1 Linux and was proposing to use SuSe once the > YasT English problem is solved. Upgrading is always quite a > time-consuming affair, particularly as I will copy /usr/local, /home and > /etc and rebuild completely.What's wrong with RH5.1?? You still need to rebuild /usr/local because of the glibc thing, but most everything else upgrades quite smoothly.> So my question is, what R to load? I still have 0.50 on my system and > need to upgrade, given that I will use SuSe 5.3. Would you suggest I: > > a Load 0.62.3, the latest version > b Load 0.62.1, which works with Jim's libraries > c Wait a little for 0.62.3+x next release which will have these > fixed.For each new bug reported by Jim, there are tens of bugs fixed between the two versions. Most of the items on his list were either his *opinion* on things that he wants us to do differently, annoying features that have been there all along, or items introduced for S-plus compatibility. You don't want the bugs of 0.62.1, believe me. You'll wait a long time for 0.62.4. Next version will be 0.63, complete with its own set of nasty bugs brought about by internal restructuring...> BTW can I suggest, after the recent RSS News article, that all > publications should reference the software used. This should help to > promote R and to ensure that the valuable support from all the > institutions is retained since citations indexes would show how much it > was used. The correct reference for R was on the list a little while ago.Actually, the correct reference for R would be the manual for the relevant version. Unfortunately that's not a publication. As soon as it get somewhere near complete, I hope that we can make sure that each version (or at least the major ones) gets an ISBN number, etc. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, John Logsdon wrote:> 2 There was a list of outstanding problems from Jim Lindsey that > have appeared in 0.62.3 that were not there on 0.62.1.The NEWS file for 0.62.3 has a far longer list of outstanding problems in 0.62.1 that are fixed in 0.62.3, some of which are much more serious IMHO.> I need to upgrade from RH4.1 Linux and was proposing to use SuSe once the > YasT English problem is solved. Upgrading is always quite a > time-consuming affair, particularly as I will copy /usr/local, /home and > /etc and rebuild completely. > > So my question is, what R to load? I still have 0.50 on my system and > need to upgrade, given that I will use SuSe 5.3. Would you suggest I: > > a Load 0.62.3, the latest version > b Load 0.62.1, which works with Jim's librariesThis does not come close to working with my libraries, and has (literally) dozens of known errors that have been corrected by 0.62.3. (Even one of the Lindsey examples, seq, is also wrong in 0.62.1, but in a more insidious way.) I suggest you go for 0.62.3: it has the fewest known bugs of any version (and the next version, 0.63, is not yet stable enough to surplant it, at least for my tests). -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._