Thank you for your responses. It turns out the problem was my version of 'tar' on solaris. I downloaded the latest Gnu tar and the install completed successfully. Who would of know ;)
Thanks again, Alex -----Original Message----- From: dmba...@gmail.com [mailto:dmba...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Bates Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:48 PM To: Alex Bryant Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] unable to compile Recommended packages Did you run $RHOME/src/tools/rsync-recommended to obtain the most recent versions of the recommended packages before trying to compile them? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Alex Bryant <abry...@i-review.com> wrote: > Hi folks, I'm having a problem with installing R on Solaris. Has anyone > seen a similar issue? I don't find any hits on the search engines. Thanks. > > > Environment: > SunOS xxxx 5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R > > During the installation/compilation of R-2.10.1 I get the following error: > > begin installing recommended package boot > ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz' > *** Error code 1 > The following command caused the error: > MAKE="make" R_LIBS= ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL --no-lock -l > "../../../library" boot.tgz > boot.ts.out 2>&1 || (cat boot.ts.out && exit 1) > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `boot.ts' > Current working directory /home/ireview/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended > *** Error code 1 > The following command caused the error: > make stamp-recommended > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `recommended-packages' > Current working directory /home/ireview/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended > *** Error code 1 > The following command caused the error: > (cd src/library/Recommended && make) > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `stamp-recommended' > > > -Alex > > > //************************ > // Alex Bryant > // Software Developer > // Integrated Clinical Systems, Inc. > // 908-996-7208 > > > ________________________________ > Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, and any attachment to...{{dropped:13}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
