[Rd] Corrections for the R manual on Solaris

2010-06-17 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
There are a few errors in the R manual about Solaris. 1) Firstly you may know that Sun is now owned by Oracle. 2) "(Recent Sun machines are Opterons (‘amd64’) rather than ‘x86’, but 32-bit ‘x86’ executables are the default.) " It's not true to say that recent machines are Opterons rather than

Re: [Rd] Corrections for the R manual on Solaris

2010-06-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/17/10 12:53 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: There are a few errors in the R manual about Solaris. 1) Firstly you may know that Sun is now owned by Oracle. 2) "(Recent Sun machines are Opterons (‘amd64’) rather than ‘x86’, but 32-bit ‘x86’ executables are the default.) " It's

Re: [Rd] No RTFM?

2010-08-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/20/10 01:08 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: What do you think about adding a "No RTFM" policy to the R mailing lists? Per, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM": The Ubuntu Forums and LinuxQuestions.org, for instance, have instituted "no RTFM" policies to promote a welcoming atmosphere.[8][9]. R

[Rd] Does R use "computed gotos" - a gcc extension of C?

2011-03-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
The R manual says R will not build with gcc on 64-bit Solaris x86 with gcc http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Solaris "Tests with gcc32 on ‘x86’ and ‘amd64’ have been less successful: ‘x86’ builds have failed on tests using complex arithmetic33, whereas on ‘amd64’ the builds ha

Re: [Rd] Does R use "computed gotos" - a gcc extension of C?

2011-03-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/ 4/11 11:40 PM, luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: The R manual says R will not build with gcc on 64-bit Solaris x86 with gcc http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Solaris "Tests with gcc32 on ‘x86’ and ‘amd64’ have been

Re: [Rd] Does R use "computed gotos" - a gcc extension of C?

2011-03-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/ 5/11 09:31 PM, luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Yes -- in the byte code interpreter in eval.c luke Thank you Luke. Do you know if there may be any others? I do not. Do you know if that bit of code gets compiled into all 3 of the R

Re: [Rd] Does R use "computed gotos" - a gcc extension of C?

2011-03-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 03/ 5/11 09:31 PM, luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 03/ 4/11 11:40 PM, luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: The R manual says R will not build with gcc on 64-bit Solaris x86 with gcc http://cran.r

Re: [Rd] Failure to load the recommended package Matrix (Was: [R] Can one get a list of recommended packages?)

2010-06-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/14/10 10:05 AM, Ei-ji Nakama wrote: And if you look at the other R-help message posted by David Kirby you will find a link to the trouble ticket report in Sage as http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9201 From the link,... | kir...@t2:[~] $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH | /usr/local/gcc-

[Rd] Fail to call AC_CACHE_CHECK on R 2.7.0 for Solaris

2008-06-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I've tried to build R 2.6.1 and 2.7.0 on Solaris 10 update 4 (SPARC) and both configure ok, so you might ask why I suspect there is a problem. I tried to build the maths program Sage http://www.sagemath.org/ version 3.0.3alpha1. Sage fails when building R 2.6.1 - (Sage includes R in the packa

Re: [Rd] Fail to call AC_CACHE_CHECK on R 2.7.0 for Solaris

2008-06-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: This is covered in the 'R Installation and Administration' manual that INSTALL asked you to read. Specifically for Solaris: Modern Solaris systems allow a large selection of Open Source software to be installed via @command{pkg-get}: a Sparc Solaris 10 system came wi

[Rd] SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS needs quotes on Solaris section of admin manual.

2008-06-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
In the admin manual, there is some information about flags etc for Solaris: CC="cc -xc99" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/csw/include CFLAGS="-O -xlibmieee" F77=f95 FFLAGS=-O4 CXX=CC CXXFLAGS=-O FC=f95 FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS LDFLAGS=-L/opt/csw/lib SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS=-G -lCstd Where as the CC command is quoted, the SHLIB

Re: [Rd] SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS needs quotes on Solaris section of admin manual.

2008-06-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: In the admin manual, there is some information about flags etc for Solaris: CC="cc -xc99" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/csw/include CFLAGS="-O -xlibmieee" F77=f95 FFLAGS=-O4 CXX=CC CXXFLAGS=-O FC=f95 FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS LDFLAGS=-L/opt/csw/lib SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS=-G -lC