Installing R on 64-bit Solaris 2.8
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 Gerald.Jean at spgdag.ca wrote:
Hello, I am installing R on a Sun Solaris 64-bit machine. I followed the instructions in the "R Installation and Administration" guide. I am amazed at how much is going on during the installation process and I congratulate the people who have put all this together for the ones amongst us who don't have the required skills to do it. The installation went fairly well I think, I got the following Warnings from "configure". I guess that the required packages to build the different R manuals were not found on the machine, I am a little surprised regarding the PDF manuals since Acrobat reader is installed and "/opt/Acrobat5/bin" is on the PATH; emacs is also installed and in the PATH variable? configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R manuals configure: WARNING: you cannot build info versions of the R manuals configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
You probably don't have tex, pdftex nor makeinfo installed.
"make" ran with no complaints. "make check" ended with the following messages, is that a concern, should I pursue the installation or is this realy a fatal error as the message states? If so what should I do differently? running tests of Internet and socket functions expect some differences running code in 'internet.R' ...*** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `internet.Rout' Current working directory /actuaria/application/R-1.8.1/tests *** Error code 1 (ignored)
Look in the file tests/internet.Rout.fail. It is probably an authentication problem (might you need a proxy set?), but it would be wise to track it a bit further.
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