"Douglas Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 31 Oct 2006 12:05:21 +0100, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [move to r-devel, put maintainer in loop] > > > > Patrick Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Mon, 30-Oct-2006 at 04:44PM -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > > > > > > > |> Try "R CMD printenv R_HOME" and you'll find which R home directory it > > > is > > > |> using. You can see a lot more with "R CMD printenv" or various options > > > |> to "R CMD config". > > > > > > Thanks for that information. It knocks my theory on the head. Pity > > > that, because I might have been able to do something about it if that > > > was the problem. Now I'm at a loss to work out why lme4 installation > > > cannot find Matrix, and more strangely, why nothing else gave a > > > similar problem. I think I've tried every version of lme4 and Matrix > > > that has emerged since R-2.4.0 has been released. > > > > > > The fact that no other Red hat user has a problem indicates the > > > problem is this end; but I'm short of ideas about where to look. > > > Looks like it's back to versions 6 months old -- like proprietary > > > software users have to put up with. :-( > > > > Hmmm, I can provoke this on SUSE too (I was going to ask you to try > > this!): > > > > mkdir foo > > MY_R=~/misc/r-release-branch/BUILD/bin/R > > R_LIBS=foo $MY_R --vanilla << EOF > > options(repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.dk.r-project.org";)) > > install.packages("lme4", depend=TRUE) > > EOF > > > > This installs Matrix alright, then dies with ........ > > And Matrix.h is sitting happily in foo/Matrix/include/ but obviously > > not getting included. Should there have been a copy inside lme4? > > Not according to my understanding of how the "LinkingTo:" > specification in the DESCRIPTION file is to work.
Kurt pointed out the real reason: Using a relative path for R_LIBS was asking for trouble. So it was my own fault, I just got blinded by seeing symptoms so close to those reported by Patrick. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
