[R] R Installation problem: 'make check' errors

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Fritz Roth <froth at hms.harvard.edu> writes:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to install R from source on an Intel machine running Linux
> (RedHat 6.2) and I am getting errors (Error 139, Error 2, and Error 1)
> on 'make check'.  Perhaps I've forgotten something basic?
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Here's what I've done:
> /configure --prefix=/home1/froth/R --enable-R-shlib --with-tcltk --with-x
> make
> make clean
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The output from 'make clean' is as follows:
> [froth at lama R-1.3.1]$ make check
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/tests'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/tests'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/tests/Examples'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/tests/Examples'
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/tests/Examples'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/tests/Examples'
> collecting examples for package `base' ...
> make[5]: Entering directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/src/library'
>   >>> Building/Updating help pages for package `base'
>       Formats: text example
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/src/library'
> running code in base-Ex.R ...
> ../../bin/R --vanilla < base-Ex.R > base-Ex.Rout
> make[4]: *** [base-Ex.Rout] Error 139
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/tests/Examples'
> make[3]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/tests/Examples'
> make[2]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/tests'
> make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/tests'
> make: *** [check] Error 2
> [froth at lama R-1.3.1]$
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hmm. The compilers of 6.2 aren't all that hot (and are known to break
the next R version) but I thought that 1.3.x would work.

The clue to what might be wrong comes at the end of the base-Ex.Rout
file  (except if file buffering causes the output to be lost, but I
think the error looks different then), so that's what you should show
us. 

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