Re: [Rd] Problem compiling R library on FC4 ( conflicting declaration in Rinterface.h and stdint.h)

2009-12-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Marc Schwartz wrote: FC4? Really? That was my reaction, but I think there may be another problem. The subject line said 'R library', the body said 'The package'. What are we talking about here? Rinterface.h is intended for alternative front-ends (see the comments in

Re: [Rd] simplifying number of R installations on disk

2009-12-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Note that there is a batch file Rgui.bat, etc. here: http://batchfiles.googlecode.com that will find R in the Windows registry and then run Rgui.exe so that you don't need to change any paths each time you do an install. There is also a command, Rversions.hta, that will display which versions of

Re: [Rd] simplifying number of R installations on disk

2009-12-26 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Moreover, one may want to script use of R. And while I use R a lot more on non-Windows systems I do have helper and convenience scripts, PATH settings etc to create packages on Windows. For that I find it a PITA to have to adjust things on each upgrade --- and hence some time ago I stopped accept

Re: [Rd] simplifying number of R installations on disk

2009-12-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Charlotte Maia wrote: > I think it's a very bad idea to truncate version numbers. > Version numbers are important, and there may be a critical difference > x.y.0 and x.y.1. > Plus there is no guarantee that the updated version is better than the > previous one. > H

Re: [Rd] Problem compiling R library on FC4 ( conflicting declaration in Rinterface.h and stdint.h)

2009-12-26 Thread Marc Schwartz
FC4? Really? That has not been supported in over 3 years. The only versions of Fedora currently supported are 11 and 12. You need to get that machine updated. My vague recollection was that there were a variety of fortran compiler issues around that time (circa 2005/2006) with FC4, though

Re: [Rd] simplifying number of R installations on disk

2009-12-26 Thread Charlotte Maia
I think it's a very bad idea to truncate version numbers. Version numbers are important, and there may be a critical difference x.y.0 and x.y.1. Plus there is no guarantee that the updated version is better than the previous one. Hence a programmer may need to go back to x.y.0 until x.y.2 is releas

[Rd] Problem compiling R library on FC4 ( conflicting declaration in Rinterface.h and stdint.h)

2009-12-26 Thread Saptarshi Guha
Hello, The package builds successfully on RHEL5 and OS X( 64 bit,32/64 respectively) but on FC4(32 bit) it fails with this error g++ -m32 -I/usr/include/R -I/usr/local/include-fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march