[R] R-1.7.0; empty html files.

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Rolf Turner <rolf at math.unb.ca> writes:

> When I installed R-1.7.0, the *.html files in /usr/local/lib/R/doc/manual
> all wound up being empty:
> 
> ls -l *.html
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     other           0 Apr 16 15:52 R-FAQ.html
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     other           0 Apr 16 15:52 R-admin.html
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     other           0 Apr 16 15:52 R-data.html
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     other           0 Apr 16 15:52 R-exts.html
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     other           0 Apr 16 15:52 R-intro.html
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     other           0 Apr 16 15:52 R-lang.html
> 
> I thought that they got put in automatically, and indeed the
> files are ***there*** there's just nothing in them.
> 
> I did the usual
> 
> 	./configure
> 	make
> 	make check
> 	make install
> 
> and no errors seemed to occur --- other than the permissions
> problem I alluded to in an earlier email.  When I noticed that
> the *.html files were empty I tried doing
> 
> 	make html
> 
> explicitly --- although the instructions seem to indicate that
> this shouldn't be necessary --- and repeated the make install.
> Not a sausage.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Didn't happen to me:

$ ls -l `R RHOME`/doc/manual
total 2238
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other     168182 Apr 16 16:32 R-FAQ.html
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      64461 Apr 16 16:32 R-admin.html
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      97901 Apr 16 16:32 R-data.html
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other     246379 Apr 16 16:32 R-exts.html
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other     313551 Apr 16 16:32 R-intro.html
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other     200270 Apr 16 16:32 R-lang.html
$ uname -a
SunOS rasch 5.9 Generic_112233-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4

Could your umask settings have been set unfortunately? Mine are '022'
both as regular user and as root.


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