Re: R package on IRIX 6.5

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "JS" == Jayshree Sarma <address@hidden> writes:

JS> I installed R-0.63.3 which contained the checks for hdf5 library
JS> and hdf5.h include file.  Should I use R-devel instead of 0.63.3?

Ok, in summary:

  1. R-0.63.3 is good to have around to reports bugs in R, since it is 
     an official release. 

  2. R-devel-sfi-1999-02-09 is what we have on our FTP site, and the
     version used for the Debian and Solaris binary packages
     distributed from SFI.  The copy we distribute will be updated to
     the current snapshot of R-devel at the time of the next Swarm
     binary release, or will be eliminated if there is a new official
     release of R at that time.

  3. R-devel from CRAN now contains #2.
    
#2 and #3 have better HDF5 support relative to R-0.63.3. 
The main improvement is support for dataframes.  Dataframes are
a handy way to read typed data from a text file.

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