Re: [Rd] Problem installing R-devel dated 4 March 2016.

2016-03-06 Thread Rolf Turner
On 06/03/16 21:27, peter dalgaard wrote: Hm, we'll likely never find out. It looks a bit like a race condition or a Makefile deficiency in which some dependencies are not explicitly recorded (so that it tries to copy files before they have been made). I suppose that could happen if you try "make

Re: [Rd] Problem installing R-devel dated 4 March 2016.

2016-03-06 Thread peter dalgaard
Hm, we'll likely never find out. It looks a bit like a race condition or a Makefile deficiency in which some dependencies are not explicitly recorded (so that it tries to copy files before they have been made). I suppose that could happen if you try "make install" w/o a preceding "make". -pd

Re: [Rd] Problem installing R-devel dated 4 March 2016.

2016-03-05 Thread Rolf Turner
Thanks Peter. I tried running the uninstalled R; it worked. I checked on the existence of FAQ, etc. --- yep everything was there. I don't know about over-zealous virus checkers; I haven't overtly installed any such. So, mystified, I started all over again from scratch. This time it work