Thank you everyone for all of your suggestions!! I am going to try compiling R from the source- it should be the best exercise to broaden my understanding of Linux.
Best. Jonathan. Roland Rau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
