Thank Andy Liaw for his response to my enquiry. He suggested creating the tar.gz source package at the parent directory of the fixed code using R CMD build GLMMGibbs and then R CMD INSTALL GLMMGibbs to install the package. The package is now installed and works fine.
Thanks Andy, -- Richard My original question message: > > Dear all; > > Installing the GLMMGibbs package to my Solaris Unix box, I > got an compiling error: > > ars.c:497:10: missing terminating " character > ars.c: In function `dump_arse': > ars.c:498: error: parse error before "mylesj" > > ..... > > The compiling error was reported to the list on Jul 3, 2003. > According to Prof. Brain Ripley this is a known problem with > the package and gcc 3.3, and the maintainer has been informed ... > > Because I was unable to reach the maintainer by email (my > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Oct. 2, bounced), I saved > the GLMMGibbs package from the tmp directory, edited the > offensive lines in src/ars.c and saved the file. Following a > test compiling the edited ars.c without error, I re-tarred > and gzipped the saved GLMMGibbs package, stored the new > GLMMGibbs_0.5-1.tar.gz in a directory Rsources. > > I expected to install the package from the saved directory > (similar to "install package(s) from local zip files..." on > W2K) and used the install.packages(): > > > install.packages("GLMMGibbs", > lib="/PATH/Rsources/R-1.7.1/library", destdir = "/PATH/Rsources") > > Instead of using the local zip file from the Rsources > directory, R downloaded the GLMMGibbs_0.5-1.tar.gz from CRAN: > > trying URL > `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/GLMMGibbs_0.5-1.tar.gz' > Content type `application/x-tar' length 346260 bytes > opened URL > ..... > > and produced the same compiling error. > > The question becomes how to install packages from local zip > files on Solaris or Linux platforms? > > In the absence of the original maintainer, could someone in R > team edit the source file ars.c in compliance with gcc 3.3? > > TIA, > > Richard > > > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help