[R] Eror message: not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0

[Ben Bolker]

  From the R directory, after configuring successfully,
try

 /usr/ccs/bin/make

  Do read the INSTALL manual, as BDR suggested ... that
also suggests

MAKE=/usr/ccs/bin/make
$MAKE (instead of "make")

it also sounds like you're inexperienced with
building software (apologies if not true), so the INSTALL
file might be written at too high a level. You might
skim http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/build_sw_on_solaris.html

  good luck
    Ben

Powers, Randall - BLS wrote:
> Thanks, that helps some.
> 
> When I search for make, it appears in a number of places:
> 
>  # find / -name make -print
> /usr/share/lib/make
> /usr/ccs/bin/make
> /usr/xpg4/bin/make
> /usr/local/lib/R/library/R-2.8.1/share/make
> /usr/local/lib/R/share/make
> /usr/local/lib/R-2.8.1/share/make
> /apps/oracle/product/10.2/inventory/make
> /osmrapps/make
> /osmrapps/make/make-3.70/make
> /osmrapps/make/make
> 
> When I cd to the location you suggested, I get:
> 
> # pwd
> /usr/ccs/bin
> # make check
> make: not found
> # ./make
> make: Fatal error: No arguments to build
> # 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Powers, Randall - BLS 
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:27 AM
> To: 'Ben Bolker'; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: RE: [R] Eror message: not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0
> 
> I am running 2.6.0 because I can't seem to get 2.8.1 configured
> properly. 
> 
> When I do ./configure, it goes through a long list, and ends with
> 
>  configure: error: --with-iconv=yes (default) and a suitable iconv is
> not available
> 
> When I run make, I get the message below.
> 
> 
> # make
> make: not found
> 
> So does anybody have any help regarding how do get the install to work?
> Otherwise, I am stuck with 2.6.0.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Ben Bolker
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:49 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Eror message: not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0
> 
> 
>    Is there any reason you can't just install an up-to-date version of R
> (R 2.8.1), from cran.us.r-project.org (or your favorite mirror, see
> www.r-project.org) and see if that fixes the problem?  Installing R on
> SunOS is not quite the breeze that it is on MacOS, Windows, or Linux,
> but it's not that bad ... and you are much more likely to get help from
> the list if you make it worth people's while to help you by either (1)
> explaining why you are stuck with an old version [regulatory
> compliance/mission-critical old R software] or (2) installing recent R
> and showing that the problem persists.
> 
>  Ben Bolker
> 
> 
> Powers, Randall - BLS wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello R-help,
>>>
>>>
>>> We are running R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03). I believe that I got it 
>>> from www.sunfreeware.com. A number of the packages that we attempt to
> 
>>> download from http://www.r-project.org/  give us the error message 
>>> below when we attempt to run them.
>>>
> 
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Ben Bolker
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