R help - Mar 2009 - compile under Ubuntu 8.10 (Ibex)

I fired up a new machine last night and loaded Ubuntu 8.10 on it.  I then had 
to add in the usual compiler stuff which is not loaded by default: make, emacs, 
fortran, c++, etc.
 
 I'm having trouble compiling R 2.8 however.  I get a message that it cannot
figure out how to link f77 and C.  I've pulled in "gfortran".  A
google search
on "fortran ubuntu 8.10" shows various problems with the gcc switch
from
fortran77 to fortran95 --- also true for R?
 
 Any hints are welcome, including "don't use 8.10" (thought that
will be an
evening of work).
 
 	Terry Therneau

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Terry Therneau <therneau at mayo.edu>
wrote:
> ?I fired up a new machine last night and loaded Ubuntu 8.10 on it. ?I then
had
> to add in the usual compiler stuff which is not loaded by default: make,
emacs,
> fortran, c++, etc.
> ?I'm having trouble compiling R 2.8 however. ?I get a message that it
cannot
> figure out how to link f77 and C. ?I've pulled in "gfortran".
?A google search
> on "fortran ubuntu 8.10" shows various problems with the gcc
switch from
> fortran77 to fortran95 --- also true for R?
> ?Any hints are welcome, including "don't use 8.10" (thought
that will be an
> evening of work).
Read http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu to learn how to add
the CRAN repository to your package search path then install the
r-base and r-base-dev packages.

If you want all the development packages to allow you to compile and
install development versions of R then run

sudo apt-get build-dep r-base

and all the required packages will be magically added.  If you want to
see exactly how Dirk has set up the compilation of R under Debian then
install the wajig package, run

cd /tmp
wajig build r-base

and sit back and enjoy.  Finally note that the mailing list
R-SIG-Debian is more suitable for questions related to Debian and
Debian-derived distributions like Ubuntu.