Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> Before pushing this out, I was hoping that somebody could test the new 
>> R package for SL5.  I think it's ok, but it's a new version and since 
>> I don't use it, I'm not positive it's correct.  This is R version 2.5.0
> 
> First reports are positive in at least that a bunch of 'simple stats 
> examples' ran through and gave the expected results.  Tomorrow I hope 
> our (fairly) tame statistitian will have time to test it harder.
> 
> BTW in the file /usr/lib/R/etc/Renviron there are some changes (between 
> 2.4.1 and 2.5.0) which I'm not sure I follow.
> 
> -R_PLATFORM=${R_PLATFORM-'i386-redhat-linux-gnu'}
> +R_PLATFORM=${R_PLATFORM-'i686-redhat-linux-gnu'}
> 
> is presumably fair enough if i686 is what the platform claims to be and:
> 
> -EGREP=${EGREP-'grep -E'}
> +EGREP=${EGREP-'/bin/grep -E'}
> 
> is presumably safer but:
> 
> -R_ZIPCMD=${R_ZIPCMD-'/usr/bin/zip'}
> +R_ZIPCMD=${R_ZIPCMD-''}
> 
> makes little or no sense to me and I don't feel qualified to comment on 
> the addition of:
> 
> +R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/R/i686-redhat-linux-gnu-library/2.5'}
> 
> at all.
> 
> Are these all planned/expected changes?
> 
>  -- Jon

Hi Jon,
This is why I need it tested.
All I did to go from 2.4.1 to 2.5.0 is changed the source code tar ball, and 
fixed the XFree86 part in R-devel.  Beyond that, it is whatever the new 
makefile and configuration files do that create it.
The only one change above I have a concern about is

 > -R_ZIPCMD=${R_ZIPCMD-'/usr/bin/zip'}
 > +R_ZIPCMD=${R_ZIPCMD-''}

It is possible that zip was not installed when this was compiled, I will check 
that, and if needs be, recompile it with zip installed.

Troy
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