Re: [Rd] Windows Vista Issues

2007-09-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
If you find you need to turn UAC off try, instead, installing R into %userprofile%\Documents\R\R-2.6.0 (assuming R 2.6.0). I run with UAC *on* although actually I was able to run R with UAC on even with R in c:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.0. It was only R CMD CHECK/INSTALL that was a problem and even

Re: [Rd] Windows Vista Issues

2007-09-08 Thread Dominick Samperi
Mark Difford wrote: > Hi Dominick, > > No offence intended, but I have been running R (presently 2.5.1.patched) on > a Vista (Home Basic) machine without a hitch since March 2007. Initially I > had to turn off "User Account Control" to install new packages, but that was > a known issue. I still r

Re: [Rd] "bug" and patch: quadratic running time for strsplit(..., fixed=TRUE) (PR#9902)

2007-09-08 Thread maechler
> "JB" == John Brzustowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:47:26 +0200 (CEST) writes: > "JB" == John Brzustowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:47:26 +0200 (CEST) writes: JB> Full_Name: John Brzustowski JB> Version: R-devel-trunk, R-2.4.0

[Rd] Modules which require gcc4 to build

2007-09-08 Thread Iain Morrison
Dear R-Devel, we use R on 32 and 64 bit versions of RHEL AS 4 (U5) where the default compiler is gcc 3. However recently we have had problems updating MCMCpack which appears to require gcc4. I have a few questions. a) Is it OK to mix and match gcc3 and gcc4? b) Should we recompile the whole of

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install on Vista

2007-09-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I finally got R CMD install and R CMD check working on Vista: 1. put both R and the package source in the %userprofile% tree, i.e. in C:\Users\yourName or below. During installation setup of R the Select Destination Location screen lets you specify this. 2. The environment variable tmpdir should