[R] repeated - R package - Compilation Error

[rab45+@pitt.edu]

>>>>>> "rab45" == rab45  <rab45>
>>>>>>     on Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:25:14 -0400 (EDT) writes:
>
>      .................
>
>     rab45> I'm not sure what your point is. I'm getting a compilation
> error for a
>     rab45> package that should compile without errors. The error message
> doesn't say
>     rab45> anything about needing anything - it doesn't complain about
>     rab45> "dependencies." Now once I got repeated to compile, it did give
> a
>     rab45> *warning" message about needing rmutils. But rmutils won't
> compile and
>     rab45> gives several error messages (in my other post). I've installed
> many R
>     rab45> packages and I've never seen problems like this before.
>
> well, probably the others where CRAN or bioconductor packages ?
>
> You know, there *is* a reason why we (actually, the repository
> maintainers) require that a package runs  "R CMD check" without
> a warning.
> If package authors are not willing to clean up and document
> their code well enough to be accepted by CRAN,  you have to
> expect hardship when trying to install / use the package....
>
> Martin Maechler
>


I think the real problem is that Fedora Core 4 has switched from f77 to
gfortran.

Rick B.