[R] Problem building R 2.10.0 - Matrix package

[Martin Maechler]

Thank you, Russ,
but ...

>>>>> "RPH" == R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>
>>>>>     on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:13:26 -0500 (EST) writes:

    >>>>>>> "TA" == Thomas Adams <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov>
    TA> Attached is the output file from building R 2.10.0 on  RedHat Linux. I
    TA> have never previously experienced any problems when building R from
    TA> source with new releases. But, now I get a compile error with the Matrix
    TA> package:

    [...........]

    RPH> The Raw Hide packaging of R 2.10.0 has Matrix in it as a 
    RPH> new addition ...

    RPH> [herrold at centos-5 monit]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/R/library/Matrix
    RPH> R-core-2.10.0-2orc

    RPH> ... whose packaging of such a build of R are you using, that 
    RPH> you need to package /Matrix separately?

No, we were talking about building R from the sources.
That should still be pretty easily possible on any Linux system
{which has compilers/perl/latex/tcltk/ .... and a couple of libraries}.

Martin