On Sun, 25 May 2003, Tao Shi wrote:
> Hi, all:
>
> There are two versions of R installed on our Linux cluster: 1.6.2 and 1.7.0
> and both of them have problems with the MASS library.
>
> For the R 1.6.2, whenever I load MASS library by typing library(MASS),
there
> is a "segmentation fault" and it automatically exit R.
Has this just started, or has it been happening for 5 months or so since
1.6.2 came out?
> For the R 1.7.0, for some reasons, there is no MASS library (there are also
> other libraries came with the R 1.7.0) are missing. Since I know the MASS
> library should be part of the R 1.7 distribution package, I went to talk to
> the system administrator who installed R 1.7. He told me that he
didn't do
> anything special during the installation and he's also puzzled how this
> would happen.
>
> Help...........
What do you expect *us* to do? This does work on many, many other Linux
systems. Have you tried building and installing R yourself? Or getting
the current VR bundle sources from CRAN and installing them yourself?
Or (depending on the Linux version) installing an RPM from CRAN?
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