>[Tom Backer Johnsen] >> [...] I've understood that RPM's are somewhat like installing >> programs on Windows, so that was downloaded and started with YAST. >> [...] Then I discover to my big surprise that the readme file says >> that I need to have eight installed packages. Then it says "Most of >> them are included in a standard install". [...] someone should get >> the OpenSuse people to include R in the installation.
[Gabor Csardi] >I'm irritated as well. Your email should go to some suse mailing list, >this is a suse problem, it has (almost) nothing to do with R. We are running regular (Pro?) SuSE systems at various distributions levels on a flurry of machines, but have no experience with OpenSuse, however, and install R from sources on these machines wherever needed. My notes say that *I* should pay attention to have the following packages pre-installed, besides those which are already usual for us: gcc-fortran, libjpeg-devel, readline-devel, tcl-devel, tk-devel I'm not sure about tk-devel. But these are all available on the CDs. R installation from sources goes surprisingly well for us, using SuSE. "surprisingly" is an euphemism here, "astonishingly" is more proper, given the size and complexity of R sources, components, and all release engineering. I'm always quite impressed that such software works! There is a tremendous amount of work behind a successful distribution, which many of us do not suspect enough! :-) It forces admiration. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ______________________________________________ [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
