This feels like: "After downloading the R sources you should also download the recommended packages by entering the R source tree and running
tools/rsync-recommended from a shell command line." from the R Sources page on CRAN - could you try that (I guess rsync is installed on most Linux standard distributions)? On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Gavin Simpson wrote: > Dear list, > > I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and seeing as there wasn't an rpm > for this OS on CRAN yet I thought it was about time I had a go at > compiling R myself. Having run into the X11 problem I switched to trying > to install R-patched. I followed the instructions in the R Installation > & Admin manual to download the sources of the Recommended packages and > place the files in R_HOME/src/library/Recommended. ./configure worked > fine so I progressed to make, which has hit upon this error when the > process arrived at the Recommended packages: > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ... > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library' > make[1]: Entering directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: Entering directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: Entering directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `survival.ts', needed by > `stamp-recommended'. Stop. > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended' > make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2 > > Being a relative newbie to Linux I have no-idea how to continue to solve > this issue :-( > > The only difference I can see between the /src/library/Recommended > directories of R-1.9.0 and R-patched is that in R-1.9.0 it contains > links to each of the tar.gz (excluding the version info) as well as the > tar.gz themselves for each of the packages. Is this in some way related > to my problem? > > If anyone can help me solve this issue I'd be most grateful. > > Thanks in advance, > > Gavin > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Breiviksveien 40, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 93 93 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [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