Greetings, I am learning R My machine has these; CPU: 3cores amd64 OS pure-64bit CBLFS liux compiled from sources (kernel 3.2.1, gcc-4.6.2 R-2.15 When I compiled R the compiler spewed out lines like these:-
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/RtmpiHdDJy/R.INSTALL472339eeb23a/mgcv/src' gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c gcv.c -o gcv.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c gdi.c -o gdi.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c init.c -o init.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c magic.c -o magic.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c mat.c -o mat.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c matrix.c -o matrix.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c mgcv.c -o mgcv.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c misc.c -o misc.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c qp.c -o qp.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c sparse-smooth.c -o sparse-smooth.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/include -DNDEBUG - I/usr/local/atlas/include -I/usr/local/numerics/include -fpic -g -O2 -c tprs.c -o tprs.o gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/atlas/lib -L/usr/local/numerics/lib - L/usr/lib -o mgcv.so gcv.o gdi.o init.o magic.o mat.o matrix.o mgcv.o misc.o qp.o sparse-smooth.o tprs.o -L/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/lib -lRlapack - L/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/lib -lRblas -lgfortran -lm -L/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/lib -lR make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/RtmpiHdDJy/R.INSTALL472339eeb23a/mgcv/src' installing to /home/Rman/R-2.15.0/library/mgcv/libs ** R ** data ** inst ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** testing if installed package can be loaded * DONE (mgcv) make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/src/library/Recommended' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Rman/R-2.15.0/src/library/Recommended' -----here is the source_tree for mgcv ---A mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/R mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/data mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/inst mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/man mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/po mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/src mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/DESCRIPTION mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/MD5 mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/NAMESPACE mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/changeLog mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/gnugpl2.txt mgcv_SR_tree/mgcv/index #--and here is the build tree ---B mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/Meta mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/R mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/data mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/help mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/html mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/libs mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/CITATION mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/DESCRIPTION mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/INDEX mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/NAMESPACE I havent a clue what is happening in the lines prepended by ** Also I used make VERBOSE=1 but the compiler gave no indication of how one arives at B from A and how the library created mgcv.so) is installed in mgcv_postBuild_Tree/mgcv/libs advise on hese would be much appreciated Reading the manual I noticed the way of installing these recommendd packages appears to be R CMD -l path/to/libraries recommended_tarball.tar.gz I would like to know if the following is possible and if so how so:- a) obtaining more verbose output from make (is this makefile related ? ) a) exercising control over the compiler settings for the creation of the library module (mgcv.so in the above case) b) manual setting of the source and destination directroies and keeping of the source tree where the package is built. thannks in advance sincerely luxInteg ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel