final stages of installing R - please help?

Hello,

This morning I downloaded, unzipped, and compiled the latest version of 
R for unix, in my HOME/APPLICATIONS directory.
My current unix machine is a sparc-sun-solaris2.9, running SunOS 5.9.
Here are the last few lines of the output following ./configure:

R is now configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.9

   Source directory:          .
   Installation directory:    /usr/local

   C compiler:                /usr/local/bin/gcc  -g -O2
   C++ compiler:              g++
   Fortran compiler:          /usr/local/bin/g77  -g -O2

   Interfaces supported:      X11
   External libraries:
   Additional capabilities:
   Options enabled:           R profiling

   Recommended packages:      yes

Then I checked my HOME/APPLICATIONS directory and indeed following the 
compiling, I now had a new bin directory:
HOME/APPLICATIONS/R-2.0.1/bin
And within the bin, I had many new files including an executable 
(theoretically) R file:
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root        6099 Mar 29 13:18 R

I then ran 'make'.
Here are the last few lines from the 'make' output to the screen:
rm -f libappl.a
false cr libappl.a approx.o bakslv.o bandwidths.o binning.o chull.o 
cpoly.o cumsum.o fft.o fmin.o integrate.o interv.o lbfgsb.o loglin.o 
lowess.o machar.o maxcol.o massdist.o pretty.o rcont.o rowsum.o 
splines.o stem.o strsignif.o tabulate.o uncmin.o zeroin.o ch2inv.o 
chol.o dchdc.o dpbfa.o dpbsl.o dpoco.o dpodi.o dpofa.o dposl.o dqrdc.o 
dqrdc2.o dqrls.o dqrsl.o dqrutl.o dsvdc.o dtrco.o dtrsl.o eigen.o 
lminfl.o blas.o  zgemm.o
make[3]: *** [libappl.a] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/src/appl'
make[2]: *** [R] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/src/appl'
make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/src'
make: *** [R] Error 1

I then ran 'make check'.
Here is the output:
# /usr/local/bin/make check
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/tests'
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/tests/Examples'
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/tests/Examples'
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/tests/Examples'
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/tests/Examples'
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `../../bin/exec/R', needed by 
`base-Ex.Rout'.  Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/tests/Examples'
make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/tests/Examples'
make[2]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/tests'
make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/tests'
make: *** [check] Error 2


I was not sure if the errors were important so I tried additional 'make 
check' operations:
# /usr/local/bin/make check FORCE=FORCE
make: Nothing to be done for `check'.
# /usr/local/bin/make check-devel
make: *** No rule to make target `check-devel'.  Stop.
# /usr/local/bin/make check-all
make: *** No rule to make target `check-all'.  Stop.

Then I relogged on and tried to execute 'R' in my bin, as either myself 
or even root, but got the same message:
gruen@/home/gruen% R
/usr/local/bin/R: /home/gruen/Applications/R-2.0.1/bin/exec/R: not found

But it does not execute.

Any thoughts?

Thank you!

Jeff Gruen
jeffrey.gruen at yale.edu