Dear R-help community, I have had trouble in the past installing the latest version of R: we got the errors shown below (the computer specifications and version of R are below that). Does anybody have tips for compiling the latest version of R so that I can avoid these errors?
configure make ... ... ... f90: CODE: 0 WORDS, DATA: 0 WORDS gcc -G -L/usr/local/lib -o stats.so init.o kmeans.o ansari.o bandwidths.o chisq sim.o d2x2xk.o fexact.o kendall.o ks.o line.o smooth.o prho.o swilk.o ksmooth .o loessc.o isoreg.o Srunmed.o Trunmed.o dblcen.o distance.o hclust-utils.o nl s.o HoltWinters.o PPsum.o arima.o burg.o filter.o mAR.o pacf.o starma.o port.o family.o sbart.o bsplvd.o bvalue.o bvalus.o loessf.o ppr.o qsbart.o sgram.o si nerp.o sslvrg.o stxwx.o hclust.o kmns.o eureka.o stl.o portsrc.o -L../../../.. /lib -lRblas -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s mkdir ../../../../library/stats/libs building package 'datasets' mkdir ../../../library/datasets mkdir ../../../library/datasets/R mkdir ../../../library/datasets/data Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable to load shared library '/tmp/R-2.4.0/library/stats/libs/stats.so' : ld.so.1: R: fatal: relocation error: file /tmp/R-2.4.0/library/stats/libs/stat s.so: symbol __i_abs: referenced symbol not found Execution halted *** Error code 1 These are my specifications: platform sparc-sun-solaris2.10 arch sparc os solaris2.10 system sparc, solaris2.10 status major 2 minor 3.1 year 2006 month 06 day 01 svn rev 38247 language R version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) Many thanks for your time in reading this problem, I look forward to hearing your suggestions and advice, Jenny ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jennifer Barnes PhD student: long range drought prediction Climate Extremes Group Department of Space and Climate Physics University College London Holmbury St Mary Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT Tel: 01483 204149 Mob: 07916 139187 Web: http://climate.mssl.ucl.ac.uk ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.