Jonathan, If you are not willing to use the very last version of R, there is always a RPM package for R under Mandriva, called R-base. So that basically, connected as root, just type:
urpmi R-base to install it. HTH, Yvonnick Noel U. of Rennes 2 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.