Dear all, I have tried to compile R for RH 7.2 on i686 but there is an error with package methods. I loaded R 1.7.0.tgz today from the Danish mirror. It looks like the function character() is undefined... Can anyone help? Ott I did: configure --prefix=$HOME make .... everything seems to work nice until ..... make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/otoomet/a/R-1.7.0/src/library/methods/src' make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/otoomet/a/R-1.7.0/src/library/methods/src' make[4]: Entering directory `/home/otoomet/a/R-1.7.0/src/library/methods' dumping R code in package 'methods' Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : couldn't find function "character" Execution halted make[4]: *** [../../../library/methods/R/all.rda] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/otoomet/a/R-1.7.0/src/library/methods' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/otoomet/a/R-1.7.0/src/library/methods' make[2]: *** [R] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/otoomet/a/R-1.7.0/src/library' make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/otoomet/a/R-1.7.0/src' make: *** [R] Error 1