Hi, I am totally new to Linux and trying to install R and related tools. I downloaded the rpm files for el4/x86_64 from the CRAN repository and tried to run rpm but it did not go through complaining about dependencies. Do all the listed rpm files need to be installed? What is the order in which these need to be installed? I appreciate any help with this or any suggestions for alternate ways for installing pre-compiled versions of R and the packages in RHL. Thanks. -Christos Hatzis
On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Christos Hatzis wrote:> Hi, > > I am totally new to Linux and trying to install R and related > tools. I > downloaded the rpm files for el4/x86_64 from the CRAN repository and > tried to run rpm but it did not go through complaining about > dependencies. > > Do all the listed rpm files need to be installed? What is the order > in > which these need to be installed? > > I appreciate any help with this or any suggestions for alternate ways > for installing pre-compiled versions of R and the packages in RHL. > > Thanks. > -Christos HatzisThe easiest way is to use the EPEL, which is a yum repository for RHEL and CentOS. There is more information here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL with the key steps here in the FAQ: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse If you are on 64 bit RHEL, you will need to replace the 'i386' in the first command's path with 'x86_64': su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm' Then replace 'foo' in the second command with 'R', which will install R and any other dependencies that you may require: su -c 'yum install R' Note that the latest version available appears to be 2.9.2 and I suspect that this is due to the imminent release of Fedora 12, which is presumably consuming Tom Callaway and others at the moment. HTH, Marc Schwartz
Thank you Marc. I will try this out. -Christos -----Original Message----- From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:marc_schwartz at me.com] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 3:12 PM To: christos.hatzis at nuverabio.com Cc: r-sig-fedora at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-sig-Fedora] Installing R on RedHat EL 5 On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Christos Hatzis wrote:> Hi, > > I am totally new to Linux and trying to install R and related > tools. I > downloaded the rpm files for el4/x86_64 from the CRAN repository and > tried to run rpm but it did not go through complaining about > dependencies. > > Do all the listed rpm files need to be installed? What is the order > in > which these need to be installed? > > I appreciate any help with this or any suggestions for alternate ways > for installing pre-compiled versions of R and the packages in RHL. > > Thanks. > -Christos HatzisThe easiest way is to use the EPEL, which is a yum repository for RHEL and CentOS. There is more information here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL with the key steps here in the FAQ: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse If you are on 64 bit RHEL, you will need to replace the 'i386' in the first command's path with 'x86_64': su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch. rpm' Then replace 'foo' in the second command with 'R', which will install R and any other dependencies that you may require: su -c 'yum install R' Note that the latest version available appears to be 2.9.2 and I suspect that this is due to the imminent release of Fedora 12, which is presumably consuming Tom Callaway and others at the moment. HTH, Marc Schwartz
The installation seems to have gone through ok, but this is what I am getting at the end: --> Finished Dependency Resolution R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libX11-devel is needed by package R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel) R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: pcre-devel is needed by package R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel) R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: tk-devel is needed by package R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel) R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: tcl-devel is needed by package R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel) Error: Missing Dependency: tcl-devel is needed by package R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel) Error: Missing Dependency: tk-devel is needed by package R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel) Error: Missing Dependency: pcre-devel is needed by package R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel) Error: Missing Dependency: libX11-devel is needed by package R-devel-2.9.2-1.el5.x86_64 (epel) Do I need to install other tools before running su -c 'yum install R'? Thanks again. -Christos On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:11 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:> On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Christos Hatzis wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am totally new to Linux and trying to install R and related > > tools. I > > downloaded the rpm files for el4/x86_64 from the CRAN repository and > > tried to run rpm but it did not go through complaining about > > dependencies. > > > > Do all the listed rpm files need to be installed? What is the order > > in > > which these need to be installed? > > > > I appreciate any help with this or any suggestions for alternate ways > > for installing pre-compiled versions of R and the packages in RHL. > > > > Thanks. > > -Christos Hatzis > > The easiest way is to use the EPEL, which is a yum repository for RHEL > and CentOS. > > There is more information here: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL > > with the key steps here in the FAQ: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse > > If you are on 64 bit RHEL, you will need to replace the 'i386' in the > first command's path with 'x86_64': > > su -c 'rpm -Uvh > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch. > rpm' > > Then replace 'foo' in the second command with 'R', which will install > R and any other dependencies that you may require: > > su -c 'yum install R' > > Note that the latest version available appears to be 2.9.2 and I > suspect that this is due to the imminent release of Fedora 12, which > is presumably consuming Tom Callaway and others at the moment. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > >-- Christos Hatzis, Ph.D. Nuvera Biosciences Woburn, MA 01801
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Marc Schwartz wrote:> Note that the latest version available appears to be 2.9.2 and I suspect that > this is due to the imminent release of Fedora 12, which is presumably > consuming Tom Callaway and others at the moment.no -- the package is ageing in their approvals queue -- more feedback will get it released sooner -- Russ herrold