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Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Mon Sep 18 19:53:59 CEST 2006


"Sarosh Jamal" <sarosh.jamal at utoronto.ca> writes:

> Hi there,
> 
> I was updating the R-cmdr add-on (v.1.1-6 to the latest v.1.2) for R
> (v.2.2.0) in a SunOS9 environment and came across some warnings during my
> installation - it seems to download the dependencies but runs into the
> following during install:
> 
> * Installing *source* package 'acepack' ...
> ** libs
> /opt/sfw/R/R-2.2.0/bin/SHLIB: make: not found
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'acepack'
> /opt/sfw/R/R-2.2.0/bin/INSTALL: test: argument expected
> ERROR: failed to lock directory '/opt/sfw/R/R-2.2.0/library' for modifying
> Try removing '/opt/sfw/R/R-2.2.0/library/00LOCK'
> 
> I don't see why I would have to remove the 00LOCK file since it seems to
> have been created by the very session of R I use to run install.packages().
> 
> I'm attaching the complete log.
> 
> Any insight or feedback will be much appreciated.

Notice the _first_ issue reported: 

make: not found

without a functioning "make" command, you're not likely to get
anything to work. Presumably, since you have a functioning R, "make"
is there somewhere, but you need to adjust your PATH. The rest could
well just be consequences. 
 
> Thank you,
> 
> 
> Sarosh Jamal 
> Geo Computing & IT Specialist, Department of Geography 
> University of Toronto at Mississauga 
> e: sarosh.jamal at utoronto.ca 
> 
> 
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