Well, I was able to build R 2.14.0 on my Solaris x86 machine, with a lot of
work and some help. Thanks!
At first the update.packages() would not work because some of the .so files
that came with R were 32 - not 64 bit. I was able to install them and so
now the update.packages() works. I still hav
> I put the header in the /include. Was that right?
>Probably not. I would expect something like /usr/local/include, and maybe a
-I option to make sure it was >found before the Solaris-supplied one. Does
make install (for iconv) not do that for you?
Wow! Thanks! That was it! I checked out /us
>I used the --disable-nls and --with-included-gettext options. I also
downloaded the more >up-to-date cairo package.
>BTW, is there a program I can run to test my iconv binary? I think that
would rule out any >problem with the compilation.
>Thanks for you suggestions and for any future hel
For some reason when I click on reply and sign-in - the message I'm replying
to is not carried forward. As you requested that include your message I
copied and pasted it from my email.
> A suitably comprehensive iconv function is essential. The R usage requires
> iconv to be able to translate
Sorry, but IMHO saying "read the manual" does not constitute actual help.
But here it is from the manual:
A suitably comprehensive iconv function is essential. The R usage requires
iconv to be able to translate between "latin1" and "UTF-8", to recognize ""
(as the current encoding) and "ASCII", a
As I said in my email: help I appreciate - sarcasm not so much.
I re-read the manual - just in case I'd missed something and still do not
have any idea. The manual, BTW, needs some serious help for it to be useful
to its intended audiance - people who don't already know how to install R.
For exa
I'm at wit's ends here and need some help.
I've downloaded and compiled iconv versions 1.13 and 1.14 -
libiconv.so.2.5.0 and libiconv.so.2.5.1 and copied the iconv all over,
replacing the native iconv on my Solaris machine.
Still when I try to run the configure I get:
checking iconv.h usability
