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how can I install the latest version of r in linux?
3 messages · Jie TANG, Marc Schwartz
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On Oct 25, 2011, at 12:38 AM, Jie TANG wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jie TANG <totangjie at gmail.com> Date: 2011/10/25 Subject: how can I install the latest version of r in linux? To: r-help at r-project.org HI R-users I downloaded the latest version of R with the name R-latest.tar.gz from the website But when I tar the package and configure the package, some error message showed that configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available and I run make command: error message says; user at gateway R-2.13.2]$ make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. and when I download the RPM package for redhat, there are still some errors rpm -ivh R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.i386.rpm warning: R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 97d3544e error: Failed dependencies: libXmu.so.6 is needed by R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.i386 libgfortran.so.1 is needed by R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.i386 libtcl8.4.so is needed by R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.i386 libtk8.4.so is needed by R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.i386 perl(File::Copy::Recursive) is needed by R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.i386 tetex-latex is needed by R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.i386 xdg-utils is needed by R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.i386 How could I install the R package or is there any binary version of R so that I can tar the compressed package and use R directly? thank you .
If you want to compile from source, you should review the R Installation and Administration manual: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html You appear to be missing required header files (.H files) for readline, which are typically available in a readline-devel-* RPM. This is covered in the manual. The additional errors when you attempt to install the RPM indicate you are missing other dependencies as well, not to mention you are attempting to install an out of date version of R. If you want to install from a precompiled RPM and you are running RHEL, you should use the 'yum' package manager, which makes it easy to install RPMs and satisfy dependencies. For RHEL, R is available via the EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) and more information is available there relative to configuring your system to use the EPEL. Once you have done so, you can install R using: yum install R as root. HTH, Marc Schwartz