I am new to Linux (not to R) and recently installed Mandriva Spring 2007 on my
partitioned hard drive. My next objective is to install R in the Linux
environment, unfortunately Mandriva is not one of the Linux distributions
available for download... Could someone please let me know which distribution I
should use?
Thanks.
Jonathan
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Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Morse wrote:> I am new to Linux (not to R) and recently installed Mandriva Spring 2007 on my partitioned hard drive. My next objective is to install R in the Linux environment, unfortunately Mandriva is not one of the Linux distributions available for download... Could someone please let me know which distribution I should use? >One possibility is, of course, that you compile it yourself for your computer. Compiling R was my first shot at compiling programs when I was new to Linux, and it was not very difficult. It is described nicely in the R Installation Administration Manual. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html Basically, you only need to take care of the following steps to get you started: - did you download and unpack the source distribution (see section 1.1 of the manual)? - do you have the required tools installed (see section A.1 of the manual)? (C compiler, Fortran compiler, libreadline, libjpeg, libpng, tex/latex, Perl5, xorg-x11-dev) - compilation (see section 2.1 in the manual) I hope this helps? Best, Roland
Jonathan, I was in the same predicament not long ago with Mandriva 2007. You will need to compile and build R from the source code. I have not completely gotten all of the bugs worked out on my system, but I am still quite new to linux. Good luck. Ross ******************************************************************* Ross Bricklemyer Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences Washington State University 291D Johnson Hall Pullman, WA 99164-6420 Work: 509.335.3661 Cell/Home: 406.570.8576 Fax: 509.335.8674 Email: rsb at wsu.edu Message: 49 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:34:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Morse <asn151 at yahoo.com> Subject: [R] Mandriva Spring 2007 and R To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Message-ID: <37204.62935.qm at web62412.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain I am new to Linux (not to R) and recently installed Mandriva Spring 2007 on my partitioned hard drive. My next objective is to install R in the Linux environment, unfortunately Mandriva is not one of the Linux distributions available for download... Could someone please let me know which distribution I should use? Thanks. Jonathan
Jonathan, If you are not willing to use the very last version of R, there is always a RPM package for R under Mandriva, called R-base. So that basically, connected as root, just type: urpmi R-base to install it. HTH, Yvonnick Noel U. of Rennes 2