On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:23:30 John Cremona wrote:
> 2009/12/14 kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com>:
> > Dear sage-devel,
> >
> > It's time to fix our R stuff. I have some suspicions on some issues,
> > so I would appreciate if people on a wide variety of machines could
> > try the following and reply to this thread.
> >
> > sage: r.install_packages('aaMI')
> > # hopefully a happy result
> > sage: r.console()
> >
> >> install.packages('abind')
> >
> > # you'll be asked to pick a mirror using a Tcl/Tk thingie>
> > # hopefully a happy result
> >
> > I have already done OSX 10.5 on Macintel, where it works fine, as well
> > as on sage.math (some kind of Linux, I guess), where it doesn't for
> > some reason (see #4959 for details), though only for the second
> > package which seems to require something unusual. Reports would help
> > a lot with figuring out what is going on with #4959 and #5246. Please
> > note that these packages don't depend on anything else, so the
> > problems from #6532 or #2198 should not occur.
>
> This worked ok for me both on 64-bit ubuntu (the dialog for choosing a
> mirror appeared in the command-line window) and on 32-bit Suse (where
> it popped up a separate window which took me a few minutes to notice,
> but which worked).
>
> I could not test R afterwards since I have never used it.
>
> The only thing which did not work as it apparently should is that
> after the first r.install_packages('aaMI') it says that r.restart()
> should work, but it gives an error message (sage0 not found).
> Quitting Sage and then restarting is ok though.
>
Same results in sage-4.2.1 on my gentoo x86 box. It worked but r.restart()
give the same error message.
Francois
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