R help - May 2008 - Assistance in installing R

Greetings everyone;

I am not an R user; however, I am attempting to install R 2.7.0 on a  
multi-user server for use by students and faculty in the Statistics  
department here. I have an old version of R installed on the same  
server, and it works fine; however, I am running into a problem  
installing this new version. Is this the appropriate forum for posting  
installation problems? If not, please let me know. If I am in the  
correct place, I will post the details and hopefully, someone can tell  
me where I have gone wrong.


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Stan Horwitz
Temple University
Enterprise Systems Group
stan at temple.edu

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On May 27, 2008, at 12:45 PM, ctu wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't have any problem to install the R 2.7.0 in XP and windows  
> Vista.
> I download R 2.7.0 from http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/
> You could try it again.
>
> If you still have a problem to install it. You might want to consult  
> with your department PC administrator who has the password to  
> unblock the restrictions of PC.
> Hopefully, this helps.
I should have provided more details. The server is a 64-bit AMD box  
running Suse 9 Linux. I am the system administrator. I am trying to  
install the source code, but when I do the ./configure step, I get the  
following error as follows:

configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are  
not available

If anyone knows how to fix this issue, please let me know.

Thanks to everyone who responded to my plea for help, using ...

./configure --with-readline=no

worked fine, and finally reading doc/html/R-admin.htm helped.