I was trying to install a package but received this error message:>R INSTALL KernSmooth_2.22-3.tar.gzInstalling package `KernSmooth' ... libs g77 -fPIC -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -g -c blkest.f -o blkest.o make: g77: Command not found make: *** [blkest.o] Error 127 Must I have a fortran compiler to install R packages? Thanks for any advice, Rose Hoberman -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Rose Amanda Hoberman wrote:> > I was trying to install a package but received this error message: > > >R INSTALL KernSmooth_2.22-3.tar.gz > > Installing package `KernSmooth' ... > libs > g77 -fPIC -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -g -c blkest.f -o blkest.o > make: g77: Command not found > make: *** [blkest.o] Error 127 > > Must I have a fortran compiler to install R packages?Yes, if the package uses fortran. This one does, but many others don't. -thomas Thomas Lumley Assistant Professor, Biostatistics University of Washington, Seattle -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Rose Amanda Hoberman <Rose_Amanda_Hoberman at gs36.sp.cs.cmu.edu> writes:> I was trying to install a package but received this error message: > > >R INSTALL KernSmooth_2.22-3.tar.gz > > Installing package `KernSmooth' ... > libs > g77 -fPIC -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -g -c blkest.f -o blkest.o > make: g77: Command not found > make: *** [blkest.o] Error 127 > > Must I have a fortran compiler to install R packages?Yes, if the R package contains fortran code (like this one does), unless R itself was configure and built using the f2c program. (You can in principle diddle the configuration so that R INSTALL uses f2c but I strongly doubt it will be worth the trouble). -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._