A Utility Named S (or maybe R)

tronayne · 08-16-2008, 10:29 AM

The summary utility program that comes with NTP wants to execute a utility in /usr/local/bin named S. I can't find anything about such a utility (although there was one hint that R is the GNU version of S, but I can't seem to locate that either). There are actual files name S that are in places like /usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devX100-12/S, but I kind of don't think they're utilities (they're about character sets and the like).

Anybody got any idea what S or R are and where I might find such a thing?

Thanks.

Nylex · 08-16-2008, 10:46 AM

R: www.r-project.org. I use it for my work. I've just checked the stats directory in my /usr/doc/ntp-<version>/scripts and there are scripts in there for S, or R. I recognise the code

. I believe there's a SlackBuild for R over at SlackBuilds.org, though I created my own package for it.

tronayne · 08-16-2008, 12:37 PM

Thank you -- went and got R from SlackBuilds.org and got it installed. Now all I have to do is figure out how to use the thing with those .S scripts and away we go... wow, zowie.

Nylex · 08-16-2008, 01:32 PM

You can run, e.g. "R < foo.S". There are some options you may or may not want to use, obviously see the man page for those.

tronayne · 08-17-2008, 07:41 AM

Again, thanks -- I had to fiddle with the summary utility (figuring out what was what as I went) faking S with R here and there (well, mostly just at the initial startup) and it appears to work. Life is good. Don't really want to start learning R (or, for that matter, S) but I like when things just kind of buzz along and do what they're supposed to every now and again and that seems to be the case with this.

And, all is well that ends.

Thanks again.

Nylex · 08-17-2008, 07:43 AM

Fair enough. Glad to have helped

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