On 06 Mar 2016, at 04:54 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
Thanks Peter. I tried running the uninstalled R; it worked. I checked on the existence of FAQ, etc. --- yep everything was there. I don't know about over-zealous virus checkers; I haven't overtly installed any such.
So, mystified, I started all over again from scratch. This time it worked; seamlessly.
Totally mysterious. Story of my life. Be that as it were, all systems are go now, and my package checking was successful.
Sorry for the noise.
cheers,
Rolf
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On 06/03/16 03:10, peter dalgaard wrote:
On 05 Mar 2016, at 03:35 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
I am trying to install the latest development version of R so as to be able to perform a package check according the rules specified for CRAN.
I performed the following steps:
(1) Downloaded R-devel.tar.gz, dated 04-Mar-2016 03:21, from CRAN
(2) Upacked.
(3) Created directory "BldDir" next to the directory "R-devel".
(4) Changed directories to BldDir.
(5) Executed ../R-devel/configure --with-tcltk --with-cairo .
(6) Executed make .
(7) Executed sudo make install .
I got the error messages:
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mkdir -p -- /usr/local/lib64/R/doc
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `FAQ': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `RESOURCES': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS.pdf': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS.rds': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS.pdf': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install-sources2] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rolf/Desktop/R-dev-inst/BldDir/doc'
make: *** [install] Error 1
Can someone/anyone tell me what I am missing or doing wrong?
Beats me. & I just checked that make install works on my system (usually, I just run test versions out of their build dirs).
You might check a couple of things though:
- does ~/Desktop/R-dev-inst/BldDir/bin/R work?
- does ~/Desktop/R-dev-inst/BldDir/doc/FAQ et al. actually exist?
- is there an overzealous virus checker active (those have been known to move fresh files to "safe locations" right under peoples feet...)
-pd