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
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:> 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >
>>>>> "Christian" == Christian <christianmacaro at gmail.com> >>>>> on Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:21:05 +0100 writes: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
I managed to install R 2.0.1 on Mandrake 10.1 a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't that easy, first I had to manually track, download and install 3-4 dependencies. I would suggest that you consider another GNU/Linux distribution, Mepis. Mepis combines the best features of several distributions: - You can run it from CD, like Knoppix/Quantian. - If you like it, you can easily install it on your hard drive (unlike Knoppix/Quantian). Just double click an icon and a graphical wizard will guide you through the installation steps. It's as easy to install as Mandrake, perhaps a bit easier (automatic hardware detection and configuration etc). - Package management is done automatically (no more annoying notifications from Mdk's urpmi - like sorry, can't do this, go ahead and figure it out by yourself). You can use Synaptic or apt-get, and you can install packages from the Debian testing and unstable repositories (which is great). Unlike Debian though, Mepis is much easier to install (imho). As someone who went through several failed installation attempts (Gentoo, Debian, Quantian), primarily due to hardware issues which I didn't have the patience to try to fix, I appreciate a lot what Mepis has to offer. You can have a complete system (R + packages etc) up and running in 30 minutes starting from scratch (assuming you have broadband) -- which is about what it would take you to fix the dependencies for just one binary (such as R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm) on Mandrake. hth, b. -----Original Message----- From: Christian [mailto:christianmacaro at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 1:21 PM To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Mandrake 10.1 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 ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Hi,> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of bogdan romocea > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:49 PM > > I would suggest that you consider another GNU/Linux distribution,I don't think it is necessary. Mandrake 10.1 is fine for running R.[1] I have Mandrake 10.1 (Community) at home running on my notebook and I was able to compile R without any problems - just using the software that was shipped with this distribution. Maybe you follow the advice of Martin Maechler and try to compile it yourself? This is (usually) less complicated than it might sound initially. R was the first thing I compiled myself when I started using GNU/Linux - and I was surprised how easy it was. Best, Roland [1] I don't want to start a flamewar claiming which distro is better than the other. +++++ This mail has been sent through the MPI for Demographic Rese...{{dropped}}
--- "Rau, Roland" <Rau at demogr.mpg.de> wrote:> > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help > > On Behalf Of bogdan romocea > > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:49 PM > > > > I would suggest that you consider another GNU/Linux distribution,> I don't think it is necessary. Mandrake 10.1 is fine for > running R.[1] I have Mandrake 10.1 (Community) at home > running on my notebook and I was able to compile R without > any problems - just using the software that was shipped with > this distribution.It is certainly not necessary; even Windows is fine for running R. However, assuming R is not the only package to be installed and then upgraded, switching from something like Mandrake to something like Mepis may result in significant time savings, which is what I care about most. (Your mileage may vary.) I used Mdk for a couple of years and prefer to not remember how many hours I wasted on something as trivial as installing and upgrading packages. (Compilation will not save you always from having to manually upgrade other libraries, especially as your Mdk installation gets older.)