R help - Jun 2000 - .rpm (splines, ctest) install problem - LinuxPPC

Ralph Brands and Laurel Brinton <brinton at interchange.ubc.ca> writes:
> On a PMac 7200 (running LinuxPPC 3Q 99), trying to install
> "R-ctest-0.9.R16-1.ppc.rpm" and
"R-splines-2.0.R3-3.ppc.rpm" rpms currently
> in the linuxppc binary download directory results in error messages saying
> that files in these rpms conflict with files from R-base 1.01-1.
> 
> Of course, "R-rpart" and "R-survival4" then also
can't be installed because
> the above aren't installed.
> 
> Should I force install "R-ctest" and "R-splines"?
I'm afraid to break
> something in the base install without knowing it. Haven't found
anything in
> the help archives about this one.
ctest and splines really *are* in 1.0.1, so overriding them with older
versions is a bad idea. If you must force anything, force survival4,
but note that everything in the contrib section is almost a year old.
If you have a functional build environment and a net connection, I'd
recommend simply saying (as root, or at least with install
permissions)

install.packages(c("survival5","rpart"), lib=.lib.loc) #
yes, 5

(..which is likely the reason that the contrib has not been updated,
BTW.)

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On a PMac 7200 (running LinuxPPC 3Q 99), trying to install
"R-ctest-0.9.R16-1.ppc.rpm" and "R-splines-2.0.R3-3.ppc.rpm"
rpms currently
in the linuxppc binary download directory results in error messages saying
that files in these rpms conflict with files from R-base 1.01-1.

Of course, "R-rpart" and "R-survival4" then also can't
be installed because
the above aren't installed.

Should I force install "R-ctest" and "R-splines"? I'm
afraid to break
something in the base install without knowing it. Haven't found anything in
the help archives about this one.

Many thanks, Ralph Brands

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Email address is brinton at interchange.ubc.ca.
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Ralph Brands, MD MHSc

Clinical Assistant Professor
Dept of Health Care and Epidemiology
Faculty of Medicine

Faculty Associate
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
Faculty of Graduate Studies

University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada

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