Dear Developers, Since 2.8, R installation has got a bug in it such that if a package has a "configure" file then it cannot be installed without modification.
For example: * Installing *source* package 'foreign' ... ERROR: 'configure' exists but is not executable -- see the 'R Installation and Adminstration Manual' * Removing '/usr/local/source_code/Linux/R/R-2.9.2/library/foreign' make[2]: *** [foreign.ts] Error 1 In fact, 'configure' is executable!!! So I have to manually run 'configure', remove 'configure', and then repackage foreign_0.8-37.tar.gz so it can be installed. This bug makes it very time consuming to add any package which has a 'configure' in it. And the bug seems to be in src/library/tools/R/install.R Regards, Dr Zong-Pei Han UNIX Systems Administrator Computational Biology Research Group University of Oxford http://www.cbrg.ox.ac.uk/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
