R-beta: R-0.62.1 under Digital Unix

[Albrecht Gebhardt]

On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Mark A. Beaumont wrote:

> I have been installing the various updates to R for quite some time on my
> alpha, and it is only now that I have been having really severe problems.
> 
> The three or 4 versions before 0.61.1 installed without error. For 0.61.1 I
> needed to install GNU make.
> 
> For 0.62.2 I have so far needed to
> (a) edit the Makefile in src/graphics, as mentioned in my previous email
> 
> (b) edit the config.site to give a -fpe3 flag to the DEC f90 compiler (this
> is more a precaution in case of fp exceptions in the fortran code)
> 
> (c) edit the Makeconf file to explicitly give "-nofor_main -fpe3" flags to
> f90 in LDCMD (because it doesn't seem to be accepted when put in
> config.site)
> 
> (d) install GNU install (suggested by Douglas Bates)
> 
> this then produces a successful "make"
> 

All my attempts to get R with version nuber > 0.61.1 running on the alpha
failed too , with similar errors after startup as you get.

Now I tried the same compilation procedure as you with 0.62.1 on my alpha
(with DU 4.0D and DEC Fortran (f77) 5.0) and my resulting binary produces
correct results for your tests, but gives other curios results:

> 1:3
 [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
> seq(1,5,by=0.2)
 [1] 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.6 3.8
> seq(1,5)
 [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
> seq(1,20)
 [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
> seq(1,5,length=4)
 [1]  1.000000  2.333333  3.666667  5.000000  6.333333  7.666667  9.000000
 [8] 10.333333 11.666667 13.000000 14.333333 15.666667 17.000000 18.333333
[15] 19.666667 21.000000  5.000000


I guess this behavior causes man problems, because many functions generate
internally some index vectors with seq(). This was also my first guess
after my troubles with R 0.61.2 and R 0.61.3 and the alpha.   


Albrecht

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