[R] R on Solaris 9

[Philippe Glaziou]

Donnie Payne <dapayne at purdue.edu> wrote:
> I am attempting an install of R-1.7.1 on a Sun Solaris 9
> box.  It is a V880.  It has 8 processors at 950MHz each
> and 32 Gb of physical memory.
>  
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R
> manuals

configure could not find latex


> configure: WARNING: you cannot build info versions of the
> R manuals

configure could not find makeinfo

> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R
> manuals

configure could not find pdflatex

 
> I can run the 'make' fine, but when I run the 'make check'
> I receive the following errors:
> 
> running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...*** Error code 1
> 
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `base-Ex.Rout'

You will need to check base-Ex.Rout to see what went
wrong, and what other important piece of software 
is missing. 

-- 
Philippe