R-beta: R has underflows on sparc-redhat-linux

Goran Brostrom gb at stat.umu.se
Tue Jul 28 02:03:13 CEST 1998


On 28 Jul 1998, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Jeff Johnson <jbj at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Hi --
> > 
> > I'm trying to package R for inclusion on some upcoming Red Hat
> > Powertools distribution. I have started with the 0.61 version
> > packaged by Martyn Plummer <plummer at iarc.fr> (Thanks Martyn!)
> > and have upgraded to 0.62-2. I have succeeded in running R demo's
> > on  i386-redhat-linux-gnu, and now I am also trying to get the
> > alpha and sparc versions working.
> 
> Interesting. If you have anything that looks like a deadline for this,
> we'd like to know. This kind of thing might get us to modify our
> schedules to get a release out so that we can avoid known-and-fixed
> bugs to find their way onto widespread CD's (and pester the mailing
> lists for years after...).
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> If you look in the R-devel archives (on CRAN), there was a note from
> Goran Brostrom on June 4 saying that he had R running on RedHat
> Sparc/4.2. 

For what it is worth, I have now  R  running (fine) on Redhat
Sparc/5.1.
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Goran
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