Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mkdir fBasics unzip fBasics.zip -d fBasics rm fBasics/src/*.o R CMD check fBasics and that took me about 3 minutes.
Now me, I just did unzip -a fBasics_190.10051.zip R CMD INSTALL fBasics rm -rf fBasics in a naive and trusting manner. It took me considerably longer than 3 minutes to learn that this was what I should do, and when I did learn, I wondered "if it's this simple, why can't R CMD INSTALL do it?" Now I discover that it isn't that simple. The installation apparently went smoothly. This is R, right? Never occurred to me that there might be problems. Now, B-G--R! It turns out that core stuff is supplied as .dll files, which of course my UltraSPARC can do nothing with. The author of the Rmetrics code has a perfect right to provide his code in any form he wants under any conditions he wants (subject to GPL &c). In particular, if he wants to provide a distribution which only works under Windows, that's perfectly OK. **BUT** when a distribution is peculiar to one operating system, that really should be highlighted in big bold letters: this is a WINDOWS BINARY version, so that people who can't use Windows .DLL files are spared a day of trying to figure out how to unpack and of doing an installation which reports no errors at all and of them finding that things do not work. There is *NOTHING* on http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/econophysics/R/download.htm that says "Windows only". Click on "I accept"and the page you arrive at has nothing in the text anywhere that says "Windows only" or "what to do if not Windows". (The http://.../R/bin/windows/contrib/1.9 address of the page was, in retrospect, a big clue, sigh.) It would of course be nice if the developers had done R CMD check fBasics But if you go into the Sources directory, which I suppose you must have, for each of {fBasics,fExtremes,fOptions,fSeries} there is an xxx-00check.log.txt, so they _did_ run R CMD check. and sorted out the errors, then R CMD build fBasics Those same check logs show errors (like failure to build .dvi files). Will it work if I download the Sources packages? ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html