[R] Re: RPM install failure, redhat 6.1

[Jon McAuliffe]

and just to turn this into a complete monologue, the partition
has a corrupted filesystem, which caused the problem. i'm
sure this has been fascinating for all of you.

sorry
jon.


Jon McAuliffe wrote:
> 
> um, not to answer my own question, but i had made /usr/lib/R
> a symlink to a big partition prior to the install, and apparently
> something interacts badly with that: when i removed it, the
> install succeeded. does someone know offhand whether the install
> is meant to work in the presence of such a symlink? (perhaps
> not really an R-help question.)
> 
> cheers
> jon.
> 
> Jon McAuliffe wrote:
> >
> > Jon McAuliffe wrote:
> > >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > i grabbed
> > >
> > > http://www.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/6.x/i386/R-base-1.1.0-2.i386.rpm
> > >
> > > then ran
> > >
> > > [root at machine jon]# rpm -ivh R-base-1.1.0-2.i386.rpm R-base
> >                                                        ^^^^^^
> > sorry, that last "R-base" is bad copy-and-paste; i didn't actually
> > include it on the command line.
> >
> > >
> > > and got
> > >
> > > #############################################unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/R/library/nls/help/AnIndex: cpio: open failed - No such file or directory
> > >
> > > on a redhat 6.1 machine. the README in the .../i386/ directory
> > > says the package has not been tested on < 6.2. has anyone else
> > > seen this problem?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > jon.
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