nlme html?

Hi,

When installing "nlme" from CRAN on Solaris 5.3.1 by doing

Solaris numbers went 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7 aka 7, 8, 9.  The underlying OS
is SunOS with version numbers like 5.3...5.6, 5.7, .... Try uname -a:

markov% uname -a
SunOS markov.stats 5.7 Generic_106541-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4

I don't recall a 5.3.1, but it would be very old.

install.packages("nlme")

I get:

[clip]
gcc -G  -o nlme.so corStruct.o gnls.o matrix.o nlOptimizer.o nlme.o
nlmefit.o nls.o pdMat.o -L/usr/local/lib
 R
 data
 inst
/usr/local/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: /bin/perl: not found
 help
/usr/local/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: /usr/local/lib/R/bin/build-help: not found
/usr/local/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: /usr/local/lib/R/bin/Rd2contents: not found
 DONE (nlme)

I wonder why I have never encountered this difficulty before. I have:

.lib.loc

[1] "/home/woodstock/hoffmann/R/Sources/lib"
[2] "/usr/local/lib/R/library"

and

/bin >which perl
/usr/local/bin/perl

This seems non-standard!?

It's standard on Solaris.  There is a Perl install-time option to link to
/usr/bin/perl, I think (and /bin is linked to /usr/bin).

It seems that when R was installed, /bin/perl was found in the path.
Is it possible that the path has been changed or Perl re-installed?
If so the simplest thing is to re-install R, as this is encoded in lots
of places.

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How are the libraries that are distributed with R-base chosen for inclusion?
There is one, "sm", that I use quite often, and it would be a minor
convenience if this one was included with R-base. Would it be possible to
distribute all the GPL contributed libraries with R-base and allow the user
to choose the ones to be included on the destination system at install time?
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M Edward Borasky writes:

How are the libraries that are distributed with R-base chosen for
inclusion?  There is one, "sm", that I use quite often, and it would
be a minor convenience if this one was included with R-base. Would it
be possible to distribute all the GPL contributed libraries with
R-base and allow the user to choose the ones to be included on the
destination system at install time?

With R 1.3.0, to be out by the end of June, we will have a new category
of `recommended' packages which should be available for each binary
distribution of R.  These will include

	KernSmooth VR boot cluster foreign mgcv nlme rpart survival

Criteria for adding to this list include an acceptable license status,
quality, and amount of ``general'' interest for a package.

Hope this helps.

-k

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M Edward Borasky writes:

How are the libraries that are distributed with R-base chosen for
inclusion?  There is one, "sm", that I use quite often, and it would
be a minor convenience if this one was included with R-base. Would it
be possible to distribute all the GPL contributed libraries with
R-base and allow the user to choose the ones to be included on the
destination system at install time?

With R 1.3.0, to be out by the end of June, we will have a new category
of `recommended' packages which should be available for each binary
distribution of R.  These will include

	KernSmooth VR boot cluster foreign mgcv nlme rpart survival

Criteria for adding to this list include an acceptable license status,
quality, and amount of ``general'' interest for a package.

Hope this helps.

-k

Yes, it does help. Kernel smoothing is something I do quite a bit of, although
among the various R packages I've pretty much settled on "sm" because I can
interactively set the bandwidth parameter when I need to. KernSmooth will work,
though. IIRC KernSmooth also does derivatives, which is something I also need
occasionally.
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