Problems with R CMD INSTALL on SUSE-LINUX 9.0
Joerg Polzehl wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I've recently upgraded to SUSE-LINUX 9.0 and R 1.8.1 (using the
RPM-'s from CRAN).
I've checked that all required LINUX-Packages as listet in the
README.html in /bin/linux/SUSE
are installed.
I've then tried to INSTALL and check a package.
Installation with
R CMD INSTALL -l Rcontrib aws
* Installing *source* package 'aws' ...
** libs
make: ?aws.so? ist bereits aktualisiert.
** help
>>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'aws'
Formats: text html latex example * DONE (aws) looks fine.
Yes.
When I try to use the package I get the following: polzehl at dhcp-154:~> R R : Copyright 2003, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 1.8.1 (2003-11-21), ISBN 3-900051-00-3 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R.
> library(aws) > aws
Error: Object "aws" not found
> ls(pos=2)
character(0) q()
Have you set R_LIBS, so that R looks for packages in library Rcontrib ? I guess you forgot that point.
The reason is easy to detect: polzehl at dhcp-154:~> cd Rcontrib/aws polzehl at dhcp-154:~/Rcontrib/aws> ls CONTENTS DESCRIPTION help html INDEX latex libs man Meta R-ex INSTALL has not created an directory for the source code ... .
Well, binary packages do not contain source code, in principle. So this is correct. Uwe Ligges
Did I miss something ??? May I need to install some additional package from the SUSE-LINUX-distribution ? Any suggestion is highly appreciated. Best regards and thanks in advance, J?rg Polzehl PS 1: I also tried to install R 1.8.1. from the sources. Everything runs as it sould. The base system was working correctly, installing packages from CRAN works, but again R CMD INSTALL did not create the directory for the R-code. PS 2: The same library installs correctly with Rcmd INSTALL aws under WINDOWS XP and R 1.8.1. If I just copy the missing directory from the WINDOWS Installation everything works. So the problem either lies with my LINUX-Box or the INSTALL script ...