[R] Ryacas not working properly

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Checkout the INSTALLATION - UNIX and TROUBLESHOOTING
sections of the home page:
http://code.google.com/p/ryacas/

On 11/18/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I have just installed the package Ryacas, but getting the following:
>
> > library(Ryacas)
> Loading required package: XML
> > yacas("1/2 * 3/4")
> [1] "Starting Yacas!"
> Error in socketConnection(host = "127.0.0.1", port = 9734, server = FALSE,  :
>        unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> 127.0.0.1:9734 cannot be opened
> > /usr/lib/R/library/Ryacas/yacdir/R.ys(1) : File not found
> >
>
> I am using Fedora Core 6 (Linux), R 2.4.0 and Yacas 1.0.62.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
>
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