[R] Building Problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, JSteiner at unil.ch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'ma having some troubles installing R under Unix.

What is 'Unix' here?  Please be as specific as you can be, e.g. what does 
'uname -a' say?

[...]

> gmake[4]: Entering directory
> `/usr/local/R_HOME/R-2.4.0/src/extra/bzip2'
> rm -f libbz2.a
> false cr libbz2.a blocksort.o bzlib.o compress.o crctable.o
> decompress.o huffman.o randtable.o
> gmake[4]: *** [libbz2.a] Error 1

You are missing the 'ar' command. E.g. under Solaris it is in /usr/ccs/bin
which is not normally in the path, but you haven't given us much to go on 
except to guess wildly.

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