Installation on SuSE Linux [was Re: Copyrights for R contributed libraries]

Douglas Bates
Mon, 02 Feb 1998 14:42:45 -0000

Christian Hoffmann <hoffmann@wsl.ch> writes:

> I just installed the SuSE distribution of Linux (from Fuerth, Germany). I
> would be very interested in learning of a SuSE compatible form of R.
> Installing Linux was expressly made to be able to use R :-)
>
> SuSE  (suse@suse.de,  http://www.suse.de) is a distribution which is
quickly
> gaining users for Linux because of its well thought out smooth tools and
> handbooks, both in English and in German.

I'm sorry but I don't know anything about installing R on SuSE.  If
SuSE accepts .rpm packages you could try to install those from the
CRAN archive.  It may require a bit of work to get the libraries
consistent with what the .rpm packages require.  The big distinction
is whether your system is based on libc5 or libc6 (also called glibc2
or GNU libc 2.0).  A RedHat-5.0 binary requires libc6.

It is usually fairly easy to install from the original sources.  You
could do that instead of trying to find a binary package.
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