On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 22:29 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Fedora upgrade process should normally install backward compatibility
libraries when it finds an RPM linked to a library (or library version) that
isn't in the new release. In this case compat-libf2c-32 provides libg2c on
FC4,
The Fedora upgrade process should normally install backward compatibility
libraries when it finds an RPM linked to a library (or library version) that
isn't in the new release. In this case compat-libf2c-32 provides libg2c on
FC4, and it should be installed on your system if you previously had R
I had installed R from source on Fedora Core 3. Then I upgraded
to Fedora Core 4, but left R alone. R worked fine, until I trued
to update.packages(). Even then, many packages updated just
fine, but two of them, cluster and mgcv, failed with the
following error message (using cluster as an
There has been discussion of this on R-devel in the context of the release
of 2.1.1.
FC4 contains gfortran, not g77 (unless you install everything when you
get g77 from gcc-3.2.3 in some compatibility RPM). This is not a bug: R
compiled on one OS (or even machine) is not expected to work on
In follow up to Prof. Ripley's post, having participated in the
referenced r-devel thread, I would note that I have been able to build
Version 2.1.1 beta (2005-06-17) and all CRAN packages from source using
both FC4 fortran compilers.
However, I am back to using g77 based upon Prof. Ripley's
