when you do pkg_add -r R it should install R and you will not need to
run make. To invoke R, you just need to type R in your prompt. Here is
what I have on my FreeBSD:
FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE (GENERIC2) #0: Sat Jan 5 21:27:47 CST 2008
Welcome to ....
%R
R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
Copyright (C) 2007 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
Kitty Lee wrote:> Thanks to Saeed Abu Nimeh. I used pkg_add to install R package on 4.4BSD.
>
> My directory now has the following:
>
> BUILDDIR Makefrag.cc_lo config.log m4 tests
> Makeconf Makefrag.cxx config.status po tools
> Makefile R-2.6.1 doc roots
> Makefile.bak R-2.6.1.tar.gz etc share
> Makefrag.cc SVN-REVISION libtool src
>
>
> But the make check shows errors:
>
> [2:32pm][~] >> make check
> `Makedeps' is up to date.
> make: don't know how to make ../../bin/exec/R. Stop
> *** Error code 2
>
> Stop in /usr/home/xxx/tests/Examples.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/home/xxx/tests.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/home/xxx/tests.
> *** Error code 1
>
>
> How to fix this error? And then what are the steps involved to invoke R?
>
> I know eventually I need to use commands like R CMD. But what are the steps
before this?
>
> (Sorry, I have not done anything before on unix and am trying to figure
things out from bits and pieces off the internet. I would truly appreciate any
help or hint!)
>
> K.
>
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