Re: [Rd] Cluster: Various GCC, how important is consistency?

2016-10-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Dear Jeroen Did you rebuild R-3.3.1 and all of the packages with GCC-5.3 in order to make this work? The part that worries me is that the shared libraries won't be consistent, with various versions of GCC in play. On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:

Re: [Rd] weird dir() behavior with broken symlinks

2016-10-18 Thread Karl Forner
another strange behavior of list.dirs(), that seems related: docker run -ti rocker/r-base > setwd(tempdir()) > file.symlink('from', 'to') [1] TRUE > list.dirs(recursive=FALSE) [1] "./to" > file.symlink('C/non_existing.doc', 'broken.txt') [1] TRUE > list.dirs(recursive=FALSE) [1] "./broken.txt"

[Rd] weird dir() behavior with broken symlinks

2016-10-18 Thread Karl Forner
I encountered very weird behavior of the dir() function, that I just can not understand. Reproducible example: docker run -ti rocker/r-base R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) -- "Bug in Your Hair" Copyright (C) 2016 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > # s

Re: [Rd] Cluster: Various GCC, how important is consistency?

2016-10-18 Thread Jeroen Ooms
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Administrator suggested I try to build with the GCC that is provided > with the nodes, which is gcc-4.4.7. Redhat provides an alternative compiler (gcc 5.3 based) in one of it's opt-in repositories called "redhat developer toolkit" (RDT). I