Dear list, I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and seeing as there wasn't an rpm for this OS on CRAN yet I thought it was about time I had a go at compiling R myself. Having run into the X11 problem I switched to trying to install R-patched. I followed the instructions in the R Installation & Admin manual to download the sources of the Recommended packages and place the files in R_HOME/src/library/Recommended. ./configure worked fine so I progressed to make, which has hit upon this error when the process arrived at the Recommended packages: make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ... make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `survival.ts', needed by `stamp-recommended'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2 Being a relative newbie to Linux I have no-idea how to continue to solve this issue :-( The only difference I can see between the /src/library/Recommended directories of R-1.9.0 and R-patched is that in R-1.9.0 it contains links to each of the tar.gz (excluding the version info) as well as the tar.gz themselves for each of the packages. Is this in some way related to my problem? If anyone can help me solve this issue I'd be most grateful. Thanks in advance, Gavin -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [T] +44 (0)20 7679 5522 ENSIS Research Fellow [F] +44 (0)20 7679 7565 ENSIS Ltd. & ECRC [E] gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk UCL Department of Geography [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ 26 Bedford Way [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ London. WC1H 0AP. %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%
This feels like:
"After downloading the R sources you should also download the recommended
packages by entering the R source tree and running
tools/rsync-recommended
from a shell command line."
from the R Sources page on CRAN - could you try that (I guess rsync is
installed on most Linux standard distributions)?
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and seeing as there wasn't an
rpm
> for this OS on CRAN yet I thought it was about time I had a go at
> compiling R myself. Having run into the X11 problem I switched to trying
> to install R-patched. I followed the instructions in the R Installation
> & Admin manual to download the sources of the Recommended packages and
> place the files in R_HOME/src/library/Recommended. ./configure worked
> fine so I progressed to make, which has hit upon this error when the
> process arrived at the Recommended packages:
>
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `survival.ts', needed by
> `stamp-recommended'. Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
> make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2
>
> Being a relative newbie to Linux I have no-idea how to continue to solve
> this issue :-(
>
> The only difference I can see between the /src/library/Recommended
> directories of R-1.9.0 and R-patched is that in R-1.9.0 it contains
> links to each of the tar.gz (excluding the version info) as well as the
> tar.gz themselves for each of the packages. Is this in some way related
> to my problem?
>
> If anyone can help me solve this issue I'd be most grateful.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gavin
>
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On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:08, Gavin Simpson wrote:> Dear list, > > I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and seeing as there wasn't an rpm > for this OS on CRAN yet I thought it was about time I had a go at > compiling R myself. Having run into the X11 problem I switched to trying > to install R-patched. I followed the instructions in the R Installation > & Admin manual to download the sources of the Recommended packages and > place the files in R_HOME/src/library/Recommended. ./configure worked > fine so I progressed to make, which has hit upon this error when the > process arrived at the Recommended packages: > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ... > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[1]: Entering directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: Entering directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: Entering directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `survival.ts', needed by > `stamp-recommended'. Stop. > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2 > > Being a relative newbie to Linux I have no-idea how to continue to solve > this issue :-( > > The only difference I can see between the /src/library/Recommended > directories of R-1.9.0 and R-patched is that in R-1.9.0 it contains > links to each of the tar.gz (excluding the version info) as well as the > tar.gz themselves for each of the packages. Is this in some way related > to my problem? > > If anyone can help me solve this issue I'd be most grateful. > > Thanks in advance, > > GavinYou might want to try the following commands using rsync as an alternative to downloading the tarball: rsync -rCv rsync.r-project.org::r-patched R-patched ./R-patched/tools/rsync-recommended cd R-patched ./configure make I actually have the above in a script file that I can just run quickly, when I want to update the code. I am now running FC2, so if you have any problems, drop me a line. Best regards, Marc Schwartz
Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk> writes:> Dear list, > > I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and seeing as there wasn't an rpm > for this OS on CRAN yet I thought it was about time I had a go at > compiling R myself. Having run into the X11 problem I switched to > trying to install R-patched. I followed the instructions in the R > Installation & Admin manual to download the sources of the Recommended > packages and place the files in > R_HOME/src/library/Recommended. ./configure worked fine so I > progressed to make, which has hit upon this error when the process > arrived at the Recommended packages: > > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ... > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[1]: Entering directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > > make[2]: Entering directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > > make[2]: Entering directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `survival.ts', needed by > `stamp-recommended'. Stop. > > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > > make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > > make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2 > > Being a relative newbie to Linux I have no-idea how to continue to > solve this issue :-( > > > The only difference I can see between the /src/library/Recommended > directories of R-1.9.0 and R-patched is that in R-1.9.0 it contains > links to each of the tar.gz (excluding the version info) as well as > the tar.gz themselves for each of the packages. Is this in some way > related to my problem? > > > If anyone can help me solve this issue I'd be most grateful. > > Thanks in advance,The easiest approach is to run ./tools/rsync-recommended from the top-level source directory for R. That uses rsync to downloads the sources for the recommended packages then creates the necessary links. (At least it works for R-devel and I believe it works for R-patched. There was a time when the links were not getting corrected properly.)