[rkward-users] [Help] RE: Install from source on ML 2010.1

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The following forum message was posted by hmhxmu at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkward/forums/forum/165574/topic/4014040:

Hi Thomas,

[quote]The bad news is that I'm afraid I can't help you much further at this
point.
[/quote]
I really appreciate the time you have put in on this already, with some
success.

[quote] It may be a good idea to take a look at the Mandriva src.rpm for R 2.11.0,
and see which configure-flags are being used, there.[/quote]
While I found the src.rpm package I don't know how to determine the config-flags
of the source. Do I install the RPM, then untar the tgz component, and then
search?  It may not be relevant anymore, anyway.

[quote]
I came across this:
http://pkgs.org/mandriva-cooker/mandriva-main-release-x86_64/R-base-2.12.0-3mdv2
011.0.x86_64.rpm.html
[/quote]
I followed through on this, downloading 
[url]http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/mandriva/Mandrakelinux/devel/2011.0/x86_64/med
ia/main/release/R-base-2.12.0-3mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm[/url]
and 
[url]
http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/mandriva/Mandrakelinux/devel/2011.0/x86_64/media/ma
in/release/lib64lzma5-5.0.0-2mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
[/url]
from the Mandriva Cooker site, and installing (successfully it appears).
This writes the R libraries to the standard ML locations.
Before this I had uninstalled, then re-installed rkward 0.5.3.
Now:
[code]
[root at penguin R-2.12.0]# R                                                 

R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
[root at penguin R-2.12.0]# quit
bash: quit: command not found
[root at penguin R-2.12.0]# exit
exit
[mhudson at penguin R-2.12.0]$ rkward

R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
[/code]

However R still has a problem:
[code]
[mhudson at penguin R-2.12.0]$ R

R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> setwd('/penguin/mhudson/CTC/Rachel/shrinkage')
Error in setwd("/penguin/mhudson/CTC/Rachel/shrinkage") : 
  cannot change working directory
[/code]
and for rkward, while the GUI looks OK , 
a persistent error attends each command:
[code]
setwd('/penguin/mhudson/CTC/Rachel/shrinkage') # R 2.12.0
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : cannot change working directory

ls()
 [1] "age"            "aggrisk"        "aggrisk.expd"   "aggrisk.glm"   
 [5] "aggrisk.obsd"   "apparent"       "appMH"          "blood.pressure"
 [9] "cell"           "cholesterol"    "counts"         "d.AD"          
[13] "dd"             "dd1"            "expd"           "f"             
[17] "glm.D93"        "j"              "k"              "l"             
[21] "L"              "lp"             "MI5"            "MI5.glm"       
[25] "n"              "obsd"           "outcome"        "p"             
[29] "p2"             "p52"            "p52g"           "p53"           
[33] "p54"            "pp"             "run5a2"         "run5p2"        
[37] "rung"           "rung.bw"