[R] building the development version

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 18 Feb 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> rossini at blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini) writes:
> 
> > Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Deborah Swayne wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'm trying to build the current development version of R on an SGI
> > >> running IRIX6.5.  Everything proceeds merrily until I reach the eda
> > >> package.  This is the error message I get if I cd to the appropriate
> > >> directory and type 'make' or 'make all.'  Does this make sense to
> > >> anyone?  -- Thanks, Debby
> > >
> > > There should be no such directory.  Did you do this in a clean build 
> > > directory, as this is what would happen if you try to rebuild over 
> > > sources from a couple of months ago?  Please try again starting in an 
> > > empty build directory.
> > 
> > This directory exists on a clean anonCVS checkout, cvs co, followed
> > with a cvs update -Pd.  Done AFTER Debbie's post, on a new machine.
> 
> There should actually be an eda directory. On my system, with a fresh

Yes, but no eda/src nor eda/man.

> checkout from the developer CVS, it ends up building a package
> containing only
> 
> .noGenerics <- TRUE
> 
> .First.lib <- function(lib, pkg)
> {
>     have.stats <- "package:stats" %in% search()
>     if(!have.stats) require("stats")
>     warning("package ", sQuote("eda"), " has been merged into ",
>             sQuote("stats"), call. = FALSE)
> }
> 
> I can't reproduce Debbie's problem though...
> 
> 

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