Suse 10.0 needs to be upgraded. You could look for a very helpful previous posting by: Ro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Detlef Steuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [email protected] Date: Sunday 15:57:22
You can get a suse 10.0 RPM at the CRAN site ( http://cran.r-project.org/ ) If you try to install with Yast you will find you are missing two support files which you can get at: http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/ the rpm's you will need are: blas-3.0-926.i586.rpm gcc-fortran-4.0.2_20050901-3.i586.rpm then you should be able to install the RPM you got from the cran site On Wednesday 19 April 2006 13:48, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Gabor Csardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom, > > > > 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. > > Well, there's a maintainer of the SuSE packages, to whom you can > complain. It is possible to put better package dependencies in the > RPMs (Fedora Extras does this) but there's only the one maintainer on > SuSE and it could well be that it would take more time than he has. > > > Unfortunately i can't help you (even if i wanted), because i don't want > > to read the suse manuals. But if you want to use suse you may consider > > reading them. > > > > Gabor > > > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:05:22PM +0200, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: > > > I have started with using R on Windows, and I am really happy about > > > the system. Now, one of my other ambitions is to learn how to use > > > Linux, so yesterday I downloaded OpenSuse and installed that. The > > > next problem was to try to use R with Linux. And there I met the > > > wall. I've understood that RPM's are somewhat like installing > > > programs on Windows, so that was downloaded and started with YAST. > > Actually, they're not. On Windows, software typically comes in > monolithic blocks. Nearly everything included, because the basic OS > provides very little. On Linux distributions, you have a large > "jigsaw" of pieces that fit together in multiple ways. Ideally, each > piece contains information about which of the other pieces it needs, > but unfortunately there is no automatic way to generate such > dependencies, so it is possible to get them wrong. > > > > And got some error messages about missing stuff. The first reactions > > > is surprise -- there must be an error in the installation procedure. > > > I have never (well, almost) met an installation procedure on Windows > > > that did not include everything needed. And the installation of R on > > > Windows was very smooth. 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". Sigh. > > > Then the problem next is to find out which of the eight I already have > > > and which ones I need to locate somewhere. Where can I find them I > > > wonder. Somewhere on the net? And that is how far I got today. > > > > > > So, one of the complaints I have is that the instructions for > > > installing R on Linux are very cryptic, and to a large extent assume > > > that you already know Linux. Which I do not. And I expect > > > instructions on installing should be simple and clear. But I am a > > > very experienced computer user, so I really expect to be able to > > > understand instructions. I cannot expect my students to manage what I > > > cannot manage myself, so Linux is out, or at least Suse Linux. And > > > that is a pity, for a number of reasons. > > > > > > The second is just as much surprise at the installation procedure. > > > Under Windows there are any number of installers which make it easy > > > for a programmer to put together all the files needed and place them > > > in the right place. > > > > > > And simeone should get the OpenSuse people to include R in the > > > installation. > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > +----------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > > | Tom Backer Johnsen, Psychometrics Unit, Faculty of Psychology | > > > | University of Bergen, Christies gt. 12, N-5015 Bergen, NORWAY | > > > | Tel : +47-5558-9185 Fax : +47-5558-9879 | > > > | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.galton.uib.no/ | > > > > > > +----------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [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 > > > > -- > > Csardi Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MTA RMKI, ELTE TTK > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [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 ______________________________________________ [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
