I rarely do a full install, but isn't there a "make docs" step,
which you may have omitted?
-pd
> On 10 Sep 2019, at 11:51 , Jim Maas <jimmaasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I usually compile my own version of R on Ubuntu, now 18.04 and it works
> fine. I recently tried to compile v 3.6.1 and it all worked until the end
> of the "make install" which did not complete because it said it
was missing
> "NEWS.pdf". Is this a bug or oversight, or have I done something
wrong?
> Thanks
> J
>
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