From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed May  1 12:27:24 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 12:27:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] maketitle.pl for Perl 4.004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205010059110.351-100000@kleigh.nl>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0205011221510.10970-100000@gannet.stats>

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Peter Kleiweg wrote:

> Kurt Hornik scribeva...
>
> > > In either case, you probably want to upgrade. Even 5.005 is "old",
> > > so the upgrade to 5.6.1 is probably advisable.
> >
> > Correct.  R 1.6 will unconditionally assume 5.005.
>
> I am sorry to hear that.
>
> > >> 1.4.1 instead. Can I expect this to cause any problems, for
> > >> instance when I build a package?
> >
> > > Possibly, though probably only Kurt et al could say for sure.
> >
> > As Fritz said: yes, but I'd recommend upgrading Perl to 5.005 or even
> > 5.6.1.
>
> Unfortunately, that is not an option at the moment. I guess most
> people working with R are professionals with the means to work
> with relative new hardware. I have to make do with a very old
> system, a disk drive that is almost full, so no possibility to
> compile a recent version of gcc, or upgrade anything that
> demands a C compiler that is not from last century.

I think we are almost all amateurs at computing.  Certainly most of my R
development is done on machines bought with my own money, the main ones
being 4 and 3 years' old respectively.

I think the solution may be to not upgrade R either!

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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