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Hello dear R users, Recently there has been several fascinating threads on the website stackoverflow <http://stackoverflow.com> regarding the subject of R WorkFlow best practices: - What best practices do you use for programming in R?<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2258092/what-best-practices-do-you-use-for-programming-in-r> - Workflow for statistical analysis and report

Dear all, I just changed from linux to a solaris server and I'm having trouble building R from source. I can't use the binaries because I don't have a permission to write to /usr/local. I followed the online instructions regarding the configuration with readline and the GNU version of iconv: ./configure --prefix=/u/fox/binaries

...ailed to complete in several different ways, most recently with relocation errors for libRblas.so. ############ I get that when trying to build R within Sage: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9040 ld.so.1: R: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_PC32: file /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.4.2/spkg/build/r-2.10.1.p1/src/lib/libR.so: symbol _init: value 0x228000984acd does not fit There's some info about this problem at http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/about_amd64_abi.html where it is suggests -Kpic is used to build Position Independent Code (PIC) code. I've not tried us...

...h") aborting ... Segmentation fault Note that make check for R in Sage passes on Mac OSX, as far as I can tell. For this particular machine and build, earlier in the same fail file the methods package was listed as methods /home/.../sage-4.3-linux-sage.math.washington.edu-x86_64-Linux/spkg/build/r-2.10.1/src/library/methods/libs/methods.so so it seems that the recommended package methods did build and load properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Dear R-help, I was able to build R-1.5.0 on WinNT w/o problem (actually it seems easier than previous version). However, I encountered problem when trying to compile the recommended package foreign: make: Entering directory `/cygdrive/g/rbuild/R-1.5.0/src/gnuwin32' make DLLNM= FLIBS="-lg2c -lRblas" BUILD=MINGW \ -C G:/Rbuild/R-1.5.0-recommended/R.INSTALL/foreign PKG=foreign