Hello, With regards to Peter's comment, I got R to compile on OSF 4.0C, though I'm a little behind on versions. I only have 0.63.3 and haven't found anything newer... All kidding regarding typos aside, I went through that floating point exception business on the Alpha and I just didn't have time to make it work. Someone tipped me on to f2c, which I had used with my (old gcc 2.7.2.?) compiler under Linux. I figured that the fewer different compilers I played with, the better, so I tried f2c on the alpha. As it turned out, f2c didn't work with gcc but did work with the 'official' cc from DEC. I can take the stock distribution of R, and edit config.site adding MAKE=gnumake CC=cc and configure --with-f2c works just fine. By the way, this is a very pleasant (and helpful) mailing list !! Jonathan Yuen phone: 46 18 672369 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences fax: 46 18 672890 Box 7044 email replies to S 750 07 Uppsala, SWEDEN Jonathan.Yuen at tvs.slu.se -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._