Help: Error when installing R 2.8.1 in IBM AIX system from source code

Hello,

They can't solve the problem of R installation and direct me to 
contact R help. I want to follow your standard way to install R 2.8.1 
in AIX 7.1 64bit system. Please guide me to install R 2.8.1. Thank you.

Inactive hide details for Duncan Murdoch ---07/19/2013 09:11:52 
PM---On 19/07/2013 6:16 AM, De Xin Luan wrote: > Hi Jeff,Duncan 
Murdoch ---07/19/2013 09:11:52 PM---On 19/07/2013 6:16 AM, De Xin Luan 
wrote: > Hi Jeff,

From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
To: De Xin Luan/China/IBM at IBMCN,
Cc: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>, r-help at r-project.org
Date: 07/19/2013 09:11 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Help: Error when installing R 2.8.1 in IBM AIX system 
from source code

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On 19/07/2013 6:16 AM, De Xin Luan wrote:

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your quick response. Let me describe more about my situation.

1. Patch file - Yes, I found patch didn't change any file, so I manually
changed 4 files(R-2.8.1/configure, R-2.8.1/configure.ac,
R-2.8.1/Makeconf.in, R-2.8.1/src/main/Makefile.in) by reading the patch
file.

2. why I use old version R 2.8.1 - We want to use SPSS Statistics to 

call R

in our server and have to install "Statistics essentials for R" 

after R is

installed successfully. In Statistics 20 document, it only supports 

R 2.8.1

and provide that install guidance.

In that case, you should be contacting SPSS tech support for help.

Duncan Murdoch

3. I don't know how to disable HTML format in my mail client. Sorry for
that. I rewrite colorful part again here as 3.1 and 3.2 :

3.1 Issue1: during "configure" step, I faced this error:"./configure
[20510]: "${}": bad substitution".
And I took action to solve it, the action is :add
"shlibpath_var=LD_LIBRARY_PATH" before line 20510 of configure file.

3.2 Issue2: during "make" step, I faced the below error but I don't know
how to fix it:

../../../bin/R[206]: "${}": bad substitution
make: The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.

4. Since you said it's not a standard patch, do you have a standard 

patch

for R 2.8.1 installation in AIX 7.1 64bit system?

Best regards,

Dexin Luan (??????)

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