Hi Paul, This might be what you are looking for. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-April/070951.html
Jesper On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm aware R-devel no longer includes zlib. This works find on > up-to-date Linux systems. > > On the older Centos 6 cluster at KU, they have zlib tool old for > R-devel. The R-devel configure fails thus: > > checking if zlib version >= 1.2.5... no > checking whether zlib support suffices... configure: error: zlib > library and headers are required > > In other software, I've seen this kind of thing, so I installed zlib > 1.2.8 into $HOME/packages and I can verify that the right pieces are > installed there. > > Now I need you to tell me how to tell R to use that. Guesses so far: > > $ export PATH=$HOME/packages/bin:$PATH > $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/packages/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > What R's configure statement needs to find zlib in my user account? > > In R-devel, the ./configure --help doesn't give me a simple-enough > explanation of what I'm supposed to do. I thought I had a solution by > adding this > > --with-libpth-prefix=$HOME/packages > > but still rejection, new zlib not found. > > -- > Paul E. Johnson > Professor, Political Science Director > 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods > University of Kansas University of Kansas > http://pj.freefaculty.org http://crmda.ku.edu > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
