installing problems about randomForest

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote:

 

Xiao Jianfeng wrote:

   

Hi all,

When I tried to install package randomForest, it gave out the following
error message:
"
     

install.packages("randomForest", dependencies = TRUE)
       

trying URL
'http://www.lmbe.seu.edu.cn/CRAN/src/contrib/randomForest_4.5-12.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 82217 bytes
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 80Kb

Cannot create directory "": No such file or directory
     

I have no idea what that is about.
 

* Installing *source* package 'randomForest' ...
** libs
gcc -I/user_data2/jfxiao/local/lib/R/include
-I/usr/freeware/include     -g -O2 -c classTree.c -o classTree.o
gcc -I/user_data2/jfxiao/local/lib/R/include
-I/usr/freeware/include     -g -O2 -c regTree.c -o regTree.o
gcc -I/user_data2/jfxiao/local/lib/R/include
-I/usr/freeware/include     -g -O2 -c regrf.c -o regrf.o
gcc -I/user_data2/jfxiao/local/lib/R/include
-I/usr/freeware/include     -g -O2 -c rf.c -o rf.o
f77 -OPT:IEEE_NaN_inf=ON    -O2 -c rfsub.f -o rfsub.o
"rfsub.f", line 90: error(2346): expression must have logical or integer
type
            if (decsplit < 0.0) decsplit = 0.0
                ^

"rfsub.f", line 90: error(2051): expected a ")"
            if (decsplit < 0.0) decsplit = 0.0
                         ^

2 errors detected in the compilation of "rfsub.f".
gmake: *** [rfsub.o] Error 2
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'randomForest'
"
Can somebody help me ?
     

Which OS/platform and compiler are we talking about?
   

From his multitudinous recent postings, a peculiar IRIX setup.

However, that line is not valid Fortran: replace < by .LT.
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