To: John Logsdon <j.logsdon@lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [R] Advice please ...
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 14 Oct 1998 16:16:02 +0200
In-Reply-To: John Logsdon's message of Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:59:29 +0100 (BST)
John Logsdon <j.logsdon@lancaster.ac.uk> writes:
> Hello R-ists
>
> Have been lurking on the list for a while, I have noticed recently two
> problems:
>
> 1 There seem to be problems with installing R on SuSe Linux
> version 5.3. As the list only gets problems and doesn't log the
> successes, has anyone successfully loaded R on SuSe 5.3? Is this a
> feature of 0.62.3 only or do the problems apply also to earlier versions.
It's a feature of SuSE only. Apparently it only affects some of the
contributed stuff and compiling with f2c solves it.
> 2 There was a list of outstanding problems from Jim Lindsey that
> have appeared in 0.62.3 that were not there on 0.62.1.
>
> I need to upgrade from RH4.1 Linux and was proposing to use SuSe once the
> YasT English problem is solved. Upgrading is always quite a
> time-consuming affair, particularly as I will copy /usr/local, /home and
> /etc and rebuild completely.
What's wrong with RH5.1?? You still need to rebuild /usr/local because
of the glibc thing, but most everything else upgrades quite smoothly.
> So my question is, what R to load? I still have 0.50 on my system and
> need to upgrade, given that I will use SuSe 5.3. Would you suggest I:
>
> a Load 0.62.3, the latest version
> b Load 0.62.1, which works with Jim's libraries
> c Wait a little for 0.62.3+x next release which will have these
> fixed.
For each new bug reported by Jim, there are tens of bugs fixed between
the two versions. Most of the items on his list were either his
*opinion* on things that he wants us to do differently, annoying
features that have been there all along, or items introduced for
S-plus compatibility. You don't want the bugs of 0.62.1, believe me.
You'll wait a long time for 0.62.4. Next version will be 0.63,
complete with its own set of nasty bugs brought about by internal
restructuring...
> BTW can I suggest, after the recent RSS News article, that all
> publications should reference the software used. This should help to
> promote R and to ensure that the valuable support from all the
> institutions is retained since citations indexes would show how much it
> was used. The correct reference for R was on the list a little while ago.
Actually, the correct reference for R would be the manual for the
relevant version. Unfortunately that's not a publication. As soon as
it get somewhere near complete, I hope that we can make sure that
each version (or at least the major ones) gets an ISBN number, etc.
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