Many packages in Fedora Extras, including R, have been recompiled for CentOS (a RHEL clone). You can find them here:
http://centos.karan.org/ They should be compatible with RHEL, but of course your mileage may vary. Martyn On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 20:43 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You don't seem to know your OS spec, so how can we guess? > You chip can run various different OSes. RH claim to have > RHEL4 for AMD64/EM64T, but not `for 64bit'. > > Use uname -a. If it mentions ix86 (for x=3,4,5,6 or perhaps 7) use that > RPM. I expect it will mention x86_64. In that case you may need to > install from the sources. One way to do so is to install the SRPM, > rpmbuild that and then install it. But building from the source tarball > is also a cinch, and will avoid RH's broken blas library (if you have that > installed). The other advantage is that you can install the current > R-patched rather than R-2.2.0 and benefit from all the patches. > > Of course, it is possible that RedHat has an RPM (they do for FC3 and > FC4), so have you checked their repositories? > > > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Srinivas Iyyer wrote: > > > Dear Group, > > I have a machine which has a 64bit Intel® Xeon™ > > Processor 3.00GHz, 2MB L2 Cache 6T302N - [ 221-7984 ] > > processor. > > (Dell Precision Workstation 670n Intel® Xeon™ > > Processor) > > > > The OS is RedHat Enterprise Linux version 4 (for > > 64bit). > > > > I went to /bin/linux/redhat/el4/i386 on CRAN FTP site. > > I have no clue if any of these RPMs are suitable for > > this machines configuration. > > > > Could any one point me to an appropriate RPM that I > > can download and install it on this machine. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ [email protected] > mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the > posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and its attachments are strictly confidential. ...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
