Installing R on Mandrake 10.1
Dear all. First of all, thanks to Jon, Martin, Bogdan and Roland since they tried to help me. In order I tried to 1) install the libf2c0-3.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm. 2) install R 2.0.1 from the source. 1) Didn't work, since the "info" is still not satisfied 2) I wasn't able to configure it. I mean: a) as root I uzipped the archive in the home/krisse directory b) ./configure in the home/krisse/R-2.0.1 directory the resulting message was that neither a fortran compiler nor f2c was found. Then I looked for a fortran compiler........ What I have understood is that a fortran compiler is already included in the gcc3.4.1-4mdk (already installed). Is that correct? In the /usr/bin directory there are g++ an similar things but none of the g77, f77, xlf, frt, pgf77, fl32, af77, fort77, f90, xlf90, pgf90, epcf90, f95, fort, xlf95, lf95, g95, and fc. Then I tried to install the f2c package. I don't get the error "neither a fortran compiler nor f2c was found" but the configuring command wasn't able to build the make file....... Now, I know I am really bad at linux and I don't actually know the meaning of most of the things i have written above, but it would be really nice if somebody could help me. Thanks again. Christian
Martin Maechler wrote:
"Christian" == Christian <christianmacaro at gmail.com>
on Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:21:05 +0100 writes:
Christian> Dear all, I am trying to install the Christian> R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm Christian> <http://cran.planetmirror.com/bin/linux/mandrake/10.0/R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm> Christian> file on mandrake 10.1. ..... Hi Christian, I'm not really answering your question, but really you shouldn't install R 2.0.0 once R 2.0.1 has been released for such a long time and already R 2.1.0 is going into "alpha" stage next Monday. Why don't you try to install from source? I've been advocating this as a test of ``having a decently complete Linux/Unix system'', i.e., in order to build R from the sources (without too many warnings about missing features) you will have to get quite a few useful things (gcc, g77, perl, latex, texinfo, ..) that you want `anyway'. One of the five R manuals is called "R Administration / Installation" -- this should help you to become successful. Once you've installed R 2.0.1 from the sources, you will be ready to try "R 2.1.0 alpha" -- which will be a service to the R user community, if you help testing out R 2.0.1 *before* its release. BTW, you seem to be from Roma, Italy. You might be delighted to see that R 2.1.0 will speak Italian in some ways. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich