R help - Aug 2011 - RPMs needed to compile R using the tar.gz file

I don't wish to install R by rpm.  I need to know what Fedora rpms I
need to install to give me the capability to install R using the
tar.gz source file as I've done for years.

On previous occasions when I've installed Fedora, I've used the DVD
which has thousands of RPMs.  Lately I've installed Fedora 15 from the
Live CD which has a lot fewer and so a lot of necessary stuff is not
installed yet.

I've done the same not long ago with Kubuntu which required me to
install about 20 debs before I could compile R.  If I had access to
that installation, I could probably work out what the corresponding
rpms are.  But I figured some clever person will have a list of the
necessary rpms somewhere already.  Or even a smarter search string
than I can think of would be appreciated.

There's a lot of information about installing R from an rpm but that's
not what I wish to do.  

TIA

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First off, this was an R-devel question (or maybe an r-sig-fedora 
one).

It is not at all easy to give a complete answer: the list is very long 
and changes rapidly as Fedora updates.  If you can use yum to install 
a minimal list and let it get the dependencies the list would be 
manageable.  And the simplest way to get a minimal list would be to 
look in the spec file for the Fedora SRPM.

But here's a start, from yum -v install R

pkgconfig
gcc-gfortran
gcc-c++ (optional for R)
libX11-devel
libXt-devel
libXmu-devel
pango-devel
tcl-devel
tk-devel
readline-devel
libpng-devel
libjpeg-turbo-devel
libtiff-devel
libicu-devel

(Fedora uses lots of things like pcre, bzip2 which have copies 
in R.)

A lot of that is actually documented in the R-admin manual.



On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> I don't wish to install R by rpm.  I need to know what Fedora rpms I
> need to install to give me the capability to install R using the
> tar.gz source file as I've done for years.
>
> On previous occasions when I've installed Fedora, I've used the DVD
> which has thousands of RPMs.  Lately I've installed Fedora 15 from the
> Live CD which has a lot fewer and so a lot of necessary stuff is not
> installed yet.
>
> I've done the same not long ago with Kubuntu which required me to
> install about 20 debs before I could compile R.  If I had access to
> that installation, I could probably work out what the corresponding
> rpms are.  But I figured some clever person will have a list of the
> necessary rpms somewhere already.  Or even a smarter search string
> than I can think of would be appreciated.
>
> There's a lot of information about installing R from an rpm but
that's
> not what I wish to do.
>
> TIA
>
> -- 
> ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.
>   ___    Patrick Connolly
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>
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On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 12:13 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley
wrote:
>   And the simplest way to get a minimal list would be to 
> look in the spec file for the Fedora SRPM. 
See:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=R.git;a=blob_plain;f=R.spec;hb=HEAD

Pierre

Am 05.08.2011 12:24, schrieb Patrick Connolly:
> I don't wish to install R by rpm.  I need to know what Fedora rpms I
> need to install to give me the capability to install R using the
> tar.gz source file as I've done for years.
Try this command:

rpm -qpR your_R.rpm | xargs rpm -ivh

The part before the pipe symbol lists all dependent packages, and the 
xargs command uses those packages and appends them to 'rpm -ivh'.
I guess you'll need the R rpm to check for its dependencies, but you 
don't have to install it.

I didn't test the command, but I guess it will work, maybe with some 
minor tweaking.

Cheers,
  Alex