[Rd] Problem building R
I initially thought this only was the case for me on R-devel, but also
just tested it on the current R-patched and R-2.1.1 (so perhaps this more
belongs on R-help, but ...).
I'm having an odd error with the makefiles in src/library/XXX while
building R. When it tries to create the 'po' directory, the Makefile
specifies:
@if test -d $(srcdir)/inst/po; then \
$(MKINSTALLDIRS) $(top_builddir)/library/$(pkg)/po; \
cp -pr $(srcdir)/inst/po/* $(top_builddir)/library/$(pkg)/po; \
find "$(top_builddir)/library/$(pkg)/po" -name .svn -type d
-prune \
-exec rm -rf \{\} \; 2>/dev/null; \
fi
However, mine dies with the error:
make[3]: Entering directory
`/mnt/disk2/home/jgentry/R-devel/src/library/base'
building package 'base'
all.R is unchanged
make[3]: *** [all] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/disk2/home/jgentry/R-devel/src/library/base'
make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
If I put an echo in between the find and the 'fi', it will no longer throw
an error and go to the next package (where it will fail as I didn't put
the echo in there, presumably I could go and put an echo in all of the
base packages and my install would work though).
Has anyone seen this?
FWIW I'm using an AMD x86_64 machine, running RHEL WS 3.2
Thanks
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Re: [Rd] Wishlist - Give R a name that shows up in search engines...
> so the results you are looking come up in your search (e.g. "find > length of array, Matlab"). Try a similar web search for R and you > will learn nothing -- Why? because the letter "R" is on almost every > web page on the planet. FWIW using Teoma (I've been (probably unwisely) boycotting Google of late), the search 'find length of vector R' points to mostly responses about the R language. Also FWIW it appears the same is not true of Google. Although I'm too lazy to try more than this one example (as I didn't intend it to be a search engine comparison) I wonder if something like "R" might not just be very Google-friendly while not being bad in various other search engines. Regardless I realize that more esoteric searches likely won't have the same R-centric responses as was the case here. > quickly. I realize that there is the R-project website and so on, > but the decentralized nature of the web assures that not not everyone > will post their answers there and people such as me who search google > first rather than going straight to a single site will have a hard > time finding answers. I've found that putting r-project as a search string is not very limiting as the bulk of stuff like you're looking for ends up in these mailing lists. Also a lot of other sites with R based info/help tend to link to r-project anyways (and thus should get picked up). Not perfect but not as dire a situation as you make it sound, IMO. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
