You should be able to use the ncurses interface in ssh or you can try to login in with ssh -X to enable X11 forwarding.
Look here http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/ for some introductory material about installation sources for SuSE. You need these for gfortran etc. You can add http://fawn.hsu-hh.de/~steuer/SL-10.0-OSS as installation source for R and ESS. Or still better: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/suse/ReadMe.html Hth Detlef On Thu, 04 May 2006 02:53:57 +0000 "zhihua li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry > > I tried using yast in my shell ( i have the root authority). The yast > ncurses did appear in my shell, but i can't control the panel. For example, > it says "press F1 for help", but pressing my F1 just resulted in decrease > of my screen light (the default function of the F1 key in mac). So even > though I launched the yast2 ncurses, I couldn't use it. > > As for the installation sources, you meant suse or r? > > Zhihua Li > > > >From: Larry Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [R] install R under suse: packages dependency > >Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 22:40:28 -0400 > > > >On Wednesday 03 May 2006 20:28, zhihua li wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I'm trying to install R 2.3.0 under Suse 10.0. As I'm using SSH to > login > > > into the SUSE server, I can't use YAST2, so I have to use rpm -i in the > > > shell. The system tells me that I need some other packages such as > > > xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi, blas, libgfortran.so.0(). Is there some website > > > where I can download and install these packages? Thanks a lot! > > > > > > Zhihua Li > > > >You CAN use YAST in SSH. Just type yast at the command line. You will get > yast > >in ncurses (text) mode. I recently configured an entire server this way. > Do > >you have root access? > > > >You have to have the installation sources configured correctly. Are your > >installation sources configured? > > > >Larry Howe > > > >______________________________________________ > >[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
