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
>
>
>
>
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