On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > R 2.10.1 is used in the Sage maths project. Several recommended packages > (Matrix, class, mgcv, nnet, rpart, spatial, and survival) are failing to > build on Solaris 10 (SPARC).
Have you checked the dependencies for those packages? Some require GNU make. > We would like to be able to get a list of the recommended packages for R > 2.10.1, but ideally via a call to R, so it is not necessary to update that > list every time a new version of R is released. We do not want to access the > Internet to get this information. > Is there a way in R to list the recommended packages? I'm not sure I understand the logic of this. If you are going to build R then presumably you have the tar.gz file which contains the sources for the recommended packages in the subdirectory src/library/Recommended/. Why not get the list from there? $ cd ~/src/R-devel/src/library/Recommended/ $ ls *.tgz boot.tgz codetools.tgz lattice.tgz mgcv.tgz rpart.tgz class.tgz foreign.tgz MASS.tgz nlme.tgz spatial.tgz cluster.tgz KernSmooth.tgz Matrix.tgz nnet.tgz survival.tgz > Better still, is there a way to list the recommended packages which have not > been installed, so getting a list of any failures? Again, this seems to be a rather convoluted approach. Why not check why the packages don't install properly? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
