Hi all, The suggestions were great. However, after installing readline-devel I had to install ncurses-devel before getting sm to work. Can this be put into the RH 7.3 Readme when downloading R rpms (and other distbns like Mandrake where there may be a similar problem)? Thanks for your help. Rohan Sadler -- Ecosystems Research Group (ERGO) School of Plant Biology (Botany), Faculty of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia Ph: +61 8 9380 7914 Fax: +61 8 9380 7925 email: rsadler at agric.uwa.edu.au ERGO's web site:<http://www.botany.uwa.edu.au/ergo> -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._