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6 messages · miguel manese, Martin Maechler, Christian Schulz +2 more

Christian Schulz
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Dear all,

I am trying to install the R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm 
<http://cran.planetmirror.com/bin/linux/mandrake/10.0/R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm> 
file   on mandrake 10.1. Since the file is, originally, meant for 
Mandrake 10.0, it is not surprising me that the installation does not work.

The error message that I get can be translated in something like: 
"impossible to install since the info is not satisfied".
Could you please help me in installing R on my Mandrake 10.1?

PS If you feel to answer me,  consider that I am almost an absolute 
beginner at linux:)

Thanks a lot

Christian
miguel manese
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IIRC I also installed that rpm months ago. I got a problem about
failed depndency on libf2c something, which was satisfied by this
package (search & download it somewhere, or mail me personally so I
can send it to you) libf2c0-3.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm

jon
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:21:05 +0100, Christian <christianmacaro at gmail.com> wrote:
Martin Maechler
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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
Christian Schulz
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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:

            

      
      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Lefebure Tristan
    

    

      
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I'm running R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm under Mandrake 10.1 without problem.
I know that there is a problem of dependency with other packages. 
Try that from a shell (eg: Konsole):

cd path_to_your_R_rpm
su
urpmi info-4.7-2.mdk
rpm -i R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm


Just a remark: While encountering problems under Linux, the "solution" is not 
to move to an other distribution... (in this way you will change of 
distribution each month, and become a super linux installer ... but not a 
good linux user)

HTH

Tristan

        
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:46, miguel manese wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Christian <christianmacaro <at> gmail.com> writes:

            

      
      
      
    

        
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Christian,

I have been using R with Mandrake since about mdk 9.2.  Like you, I really don't
consider myself any sort of Linux expert - I rely more on the gui-based tools. 
 At first I used the R rpm's from CRAN (thanks to those who provided them).  In
more recent times I have installed from source in order to remain up to date
with both Mandrake and R, and to benefit from a slight performance improvement.
 I am currently running R 2.0.1 patched under Mandrake 10.1 Official.

All of the dependencies were available on my Mandrake 10.1 Official DVD, and
installed using urpmi, via the 'software management' gui in the Mandrake Control
Centre.  This gui enables you to browse all the software packages available on
the installation CDs/DVD - by category or through searching for keywords in the
package descriptions.  You can also browse available packages on other online
repositories if you choose to set those up - see http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. 
Urpmi, through the gui, does a reasonable job of finding dependencies of
dependencies, although I admit it is certainly not perfect.

The suggestion has already been made to install Latex related packages.  One way
to do this is to choose Lyx for installation, and all the dependencies should be
taken care of.  At least it works for me.

When I browse my installed software for 'fortran' in package descriptions, I get
the following list of installed packages:

gcc-3.4.1-4mdk
gcc-g77-3.4.1-4mdk
gdb-6.2-2mdk
libf2c0-3.4.1-4mdk
liblapack3-3.0-11mdk

These should all be available from your installation media (assuming a DVD or a
complete set of CDs (4, I think)).

When installing R from source, however, I did have a couple of issues, which
were solved through searching the archives.  But to possibly save you the time:

make sure both 'libreadline' and 'libreadline-devel' are installed (again,
simply search for 'libreadline in the package descriptions) - this is so that
your keyboard arrow keys work to access previous commands.  

make sure both 'xorg-x11-100dpi-' and 'xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts' are installed
(search:"fonts") - this enables all fonts to display properly, eg when using
Rcmdr (which, by the way is a great learning tool).

My belated thanks to those who originally posted these hints.

Hope this helps,

Michael Bibo
Queensland Health
michael_bibo at health.qld.gov.au