problems when installing R in Fedora core 4
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jonathan Baron wrote:
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Whether you have the needed files already depends on what kind of installation you did. Some of the packages are "devel" and others are "compat". Here is my list of "compat" rpms that I have installed, and I think I installed all of these just to get R to build: compat-libf2c-32-3.2.3-47.fc4 compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.fc4 compat-readline43-4.3-2 compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.fc4 My hunch is that I still do not have the optimal installation, but it is possible that the newest versions of gcc have solved some of the problems with the ones that originally came with FC4. I've seen some discussion suggesting that the way to go is to use an older version of gcc, but I did not search for it just now.
See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-August/034171.html for updates on that advice. It may still be the way to go.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595