Well, here is the discussion I had with Duncan in the meantime... Anybody else a suggestion what might be the problem?
Greetings,
Andreas

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On 3/3/2008 8:37 AM, Andreas Maunz wrote:
> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 03/03/2008 6:42 AM, Andreas Maunz wrote:
>>> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>>>> So you have not tried to add one of the mentioned flags?
>>>>>  
>>>>> I did, actually! ;-)
>>>>> Increasing the options to "REmbeddedPostgres --no-save --gui=none 
>>>>> --silent" results in the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> Error: syntax error in:
>>>>> "ironment <- function () .Internal(environment(NULL))
>>>>>      mkenv <- function() .Internal(new.env(TRUE, baseenv(), 29L"
>>>> That's because you're using an obsolete version of R, that doesn't 
>>>> support the integer constant 29L.
>>>
>>> Are you sure? /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R --version gives:
>>> R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
>> 
>> Hmm, 2.6.0 should be able to handle that.  Are you sure your C program 
>> is finding that one?  I don't think it would print that error message; 
>> it would say something slightly more informative.
>> 
>> You could get it to print the result of sessionInfo() or version to check.
> 
> I incorporated a call to sessionInfo() in the startup part of my 
> program, just after R initialization. In the case that it succeeds 
> (manual startup) version 2.6.0 is found:
> 
> R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
> i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> 2.6.0 is also definitely the only version on my system (compiled it 
> manually).

I don't know what's causing that syntax error.  Perhaps it's a bug that 
has been fixed in 2.6.2, but I can't think of one.

Duncan Murdoch


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