repeated - R package - Compilation Error
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 rab45+ at pitt.edu wrote:
"rab45" == rab45 <rab45>
on Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:25:14 -0400 (EDT) writes:
.................
rab45> I'm not sure what your point is. I'm getting a compilation
error for a
rab45> package that should compile without errors. The error message
doesn't say
rab45> anything about needing anything - it doesn't complain about
rab45> "dependencies." Now once I got repeated to compile, it did give
a
rab45> *warning" message about needing rmutils. But rmutils won't
compile and
rab45> gives several error messages (in my other post). I've installed
many R
rab45> packages and I've never seen problems like this before.
well, probably the others where CRAN or bioconductor packages ?
You know, there *is* a reason why we (actually, the repository
maintainers) require that a package runs "R CMD check" without
a warning.
If package authors are not willing to clean up and document
their code well enough to be accepted by CRAN, you have to
expect hardship when trying to install / use the package....
Martin Maechler
I think the real problem is that Fedora Core 4 has switched from f77 to gfortran.
The REAL problem is that some packages are not written in standard Fortran. Compare the issues you found with the Fortran standards (which can be found via http://developer.r-project.org/Portability.html). Martin's point is that some of the R volunteers put a lot of effort into helping (cooperative) package authors avoid such portability problems, and that you should be grateful (and give due credit) for such work. For further discussion see recent threads on the r-devel list, where this sort of thing belongs (do check the posting guide).
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