On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 16:38 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You need to ask the author (as the posting guide asked you to). > > I'm tempted to not help further given the (almost complete) lack of > cooperation of that author with R's recommendations, but note > 'ordinal..so' in your log and look for the obvious fix in > src/Makefile. > >
I had no idea whether this was a problem with the particular package or my installation of R. Sometimes you have to ask a question before it's clear what to do. I went to /usr/lib/R/library/ordinal/libs and moved "ordinal..so" to "ordinal.so". This solved the problem. I didn't see anything obvious in the Makefile (at least, not obvious to me). There were other things that made installing the ordinal package difficult. The first is that the file is "ordinal03.tgz". Using > R CMD INSTALL ordinal03.tgz won't work because the package name is ordinal, not ordinal03. I tried renaming but that didn't work, so I untarred it and then did: > R CMD INSTALL ordinal This installed the package but then ordinal..so is incorrectly named so I corrected it as described above. It would have been a whole lot easier if the package was in the contributed package repository. Rick B. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.