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Trouble installing package in development version of R

3 messages · Duncan Murdoch, Roberta Jankowski

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Duncan Murdoch
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On 14-01-26 12:44 AM, Roberta Jankowski wrote:> Dear R-devel,
 >
 > I'm trying to get practice learning more about the internals of R so am
 > experimenting with the development version. I successfully cloned the SVN
 > repo and built and installed R. I am using 2014-01-23 r64861.
 >
 > However, I cannot seem to install the lattice package. I tried within R
 > using install.packages and got the error
 > sh: 1: 1: not found

That message comes from "sh", the command shell that R is running.

 >
 > I then downloaded the tar.gz and tried it as follows:
 > $ sudo R CMD INSTALL lattice_0.20-24.tar.gz
 >
 > * installing to library ?/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1?
 > * installing *source* package ?lattice? ...
 > ** package ?lattice? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
 > ** libs
 > sh: 1: 1: not found

Same here.  However, notice that some install messages printed, so the 
install started, it just failed partway through.

 > ERROR: compilation failed for package ?lattice?
 > * removing ?/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/lattice?
 >
 > I then looked at the help for R CMD INSTALL and saw debug flag so I did:
 > $ sudo R CMD INSTALL -d lattice_0.20-24.tar.gz
 > processing ?lattice_0.20-24.tar.gz?
 > a file
 > * installing to library ?/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1?
 > * build_help_types=
 > * DBG: 'R CMD INSTALL' now doing do_install()
 > * created lock directory
 > ?/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/00LOCK-lattice?
 > * installing *source* package ?lattice? ...
 > ** package ?lattice? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
 > ** libs
 > about to run R CMD SHLIB -o lattice.so init.c threeDplot.c
 > sh: 1: 1: not found
 > ERROR: compilation failed for package ?lattice?
 > * removing ?/home/rjan/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/lattice?

So it looks as though R CMD SHLIB is the step that failed.  You can look 
it up in Writing R Externals, it is supposed to compile those C files 
into the output lattice.so.  Something is going wrong here.
My guess is that you don't have the compiler installed, or R CMD SHLIB 
is looking in the wrong place, or something like that.
 >
 >
 > I then did
 > $ cd lattice/src
 > $ R CMD SHLIB -d -o lattice.so init.c threeDplot.c
 > sh: 1: 1: not found
 >
 > I'm interested in two things.
 > 1 does anyone know what's going on?
 > 2. how could I have figured this out myself? What could I have done
 > differently for the R CMD SHLIB command to get more output (for example
 > where this line of code was)?

You can look at the online help within R, ?SHLIB, and it will tell you 
that -n will give you some diagnostic information.  You can also try

R CMD SHLIB --help

to see a bit more.

One other thing you can do if you need to ask here again, is to post 
system and version information printed by R by sessionInfo().  And 
please don't post in HTML.

Duncan Murdoch

 >
 > I have read R installation and administration manual but I did not
 > understand a lot so I'm probably missing something that is in there 
but I'm
 > not sure what.
 >
 > Thank you for your patience,
 >
 > Roberta
 >
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Roberta Jankowski
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes this is useful. I thought that -d would provide more useful info
than -n but both are helpful.
Done. (I've now checked "plain text" in GMail which I think should to
the trick).

I will do more reading and experimenting. I think for now I should
just learn R better before experimenting further with devel version. I
already learned a lot even though I did not succeed in package
installation so it was a good lesson.

Thank you for your useful replies and for your work on R. I follow
this list now and am learning a lot from your email responses.

Thanks for your patience,

Berta