On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 09:20 +0100, Sklyar, Oleg (MI London) wrote: > Michael: > > 1) this IS a wrong list for such questions. You mention r-help, but this > is Rd (developers) and your question is completely unrelated to the > topics of the list!
Oleg, the gist of Michael's email was to make a suggestion about an addition to the R FAQ or installation instructions for R. I don't think that is inappropriate for this list. I had already provided Micheal with the solution to his original problem posted on R-Help. In off-list emails I suggested that Michael provide his feedback to this list and the R Core Team as he had found it difficult to understand his error and wanted to contribute a suggestion for improvement. Apologies to the list if my suggestion was in error. In doing so, however, Michael (and I indirectly) was directed to where this *is* documented in the R Admin and Installation manual by Marc Schwartz - so, as so often the case, R Core had already thought of and implemented Michael's suggestion. > 2) In Linux, any time you want to compile anything against anything and > using binary distributions you need *-devel or *-dev packages depending > on the distribution. Even if it is not mentioned anywhere, it is > actually how all Linux binary distributions are maintained. What those > *-devel contain are actually *.h files. I made the same point in my response to Michael's OP. In our discussion though I realised that for someone new to R and not familiar with how it works, it is not immediately clear that you are compiling /against/ R when /installing/ a package from within R itself. If the instructions for installing tseries had been, open console, configure, make, install, then fair enough, we might expect anyone using Linux to realise what was wrong, but you don't install R packages that way. With more and more people moving to Linux for various reasons, the default attitude can't be to assume that if you're a Linux user that you automatically know how all of this works. All the best, G > 3) Install R from source and you will have no issues. > > Best, > > Dr Oleg Sklyar > Technology Group > Man Investments Ltd > +44 (0)20 7144 3803 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael > > Steinbeck-Reeves > > Sent: 08 May 2008 16:39 > > To: r-devel@r-project.org > > Subject: [Rd] Linux installation > > > > I have just installed R under Linux and had a tricky time > > finding out that I needed to install r-devel as it was not > > suggested by yum and does not appear in any of the FAQs. > > Everything was fine until I tried to install tseries then I > > was told in the compiler output that R.h was missing. > > Obviously a search on Google proved fruitless and I was > > forced to ask on r-help. I am now kicking myself, of course, > > but wouldn't it be a useful addition to the R installation > > FAQs, especially for those not acquainted with the C compiler output? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Michael > > -- > > ------------------------ > > Michael Steinbeck-Reeves > > > > www.steinbeck-reeves.co.uk > > > > Work +44(0)1256 886190 > > Mobile +44(0)7785 277413 > > > > Milton House > > Stratfield Saye > > Berkshire > > RG7 2BT > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > ********************************************************************** > The contents of this email are for the named addressee(s...{{dropped:22}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
