Dear Pro. Ripley, Mr. Dalsgaard and list 1) Downloaded source for ver 1.6.1 and recompiled. 2) Tried to use ccc in stead of gcc, though not sure that worked 100% Now it seems to work okay - waiting for other users to verify that... Thanks Martin Hvidberg NB. ccc = Compaq C Compiler 6.5 for Alpha Linux -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._