Roland Rau <roland.rproject <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Hi Jonathan, > > Jonathan Morse wrote: > > I am new to Linux (not to R) and recently installed Mandriva Spring 2007 on my partitioned hard drive. My > next objective is to install R in the Linux environment, unfortunately Mandriva is not one of the Linux > distributions available for download... Could someone please let me know which distribution I should > use? > > > One possibility is, of course, that you compile it yourself for your > computer. Compiling R was my first shot at compiling programs when I was > new to Linux, and it was not very difficult. It is described nicely in > the R Installation Administration Manual. > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html > > Basically, you only need to take care of the following steps to get you > started: > - did you download and unpack the source distribution (see section 1.1 > of the manual)? > - do you have the required tools installed (see section A.1 of the > manual)? (C compiler, Fortran compiler, libreadline, libjpeg, libpng, > tex/latex, Perl5, xorg-x11-dev) > - compilation (see section 2.1 in the manual) > > I hope this helps? > > Best, > Roland > > ______________________________________________ > R-help <at> 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. > > Just to add to Roland's comments - remember to install the "-dev" packages for all of the tools he mentions. I learned this from the R installation manual, and it has been valuable in installing other software from source. The output from "./configure" will usually tell you if something is missing.
Personally, I no longer use Mandriva, but comments I made re v10.1 may or may not be relevant: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/54320.html. Hope this helps, Michael ______________________________________________ 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.
