[R] Installation Help

2007-02-03 Thread Amr Ahmed
Hi, I am trying to install R on a linux machine. The output of running ./configure is == R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Source directory: . Installation directory:/usr/local C compiler:gcc -g -O2 -std=gnu99

Re: [R] Installation Help [Ignore]

2007-02-03 Thread Amr Ahmed
Dear all, I just went around the error I got. For your record, in case someone encounter this again, the problem was in the zlib compression utility ( /usr/local/lib64/libz.a: could not read symbols: Bad value) which was not compiled in my machine using the -fPIC flag. It turns out that this

Re: [R] Installation Help

2007-02-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You have an incompatible libz.a in /usr/local/lib64, without the corresponding libz.so. That is *not* the default on any 'linux machine' I have ever seen. Please remove it, and make sure you have the system shared libz installed. Also, why are you installing the obsolete R-2.4.0? On Sat, 3

Re: [R] Stuck in R installation, help~~

2006-05-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is covered in the R-admin manual: Note that the BLAS library will be used for several add-on packages as well as for @R{} itself. This means that it is better to use a shared/dynamic BLAS library, as most of a static library will be compiled into the @R{} executable and each

[R] Stuck in R installation, help~~

2006-05-17 Thread Selina
Hi all, I'm stuck in the installation of R. When I run configure, I got the error: configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available I followed one answer in some post and use this: ./configure --with-prefix=/home/user/R-2.2.1 --with-readline=no It successfully

Re: [R] Installation help

2005-08-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, b wrote: Solved the problem with the 'R' installation! One of the processes that loads up on startup was conflicting with it. It was a program called Gameutil.exe which seems to enhance games by altering display modes. For some reason a conflict existed. Anyhow I dont

[R] Installation help

2005-08-30 Thread b
Solved the problem with the 'R' installation! One of the processes that loads up on startup was conflicting with it. It was a program called Gameutil.exe which seems to enhance games by altering display modes. For some reason a conflict existed. Anyhow I dont really need the Gameutil.exe, so I'm

Re: [R] installation help for mac os x

2004-10-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There is a binary installation available at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ so do you actually need to be building from the sources? If you do, your immediate problem is installing Tk on MacOS X, and that's not something relevant to R-help. However, Tk on Unix needs X11, whose

Re: [R] installation help for mac os x

2004-10-05 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Nancy Hornewer wrote: (4) Didn't install X11 SDK package because it was optional and I don't think I need that (just want to run this on my machine) (5) Installed tcl8.4.7 - no problems (6) Tried installing tk8.4.7 but received many many error messages when I typed make. Here

[R] installation help for mac os x

2004-10-04 Thread Nancy Hornewer
Hi, I'm trying to install R for Mac OS X. I printed out the Mac OS X FAQ (version 1.9-1 2004-03-22) and have been following those instructions step-by-step. I'm a _complete_ novice when it comes to non-mac type software installations and am not very unix literate, but I'm hoping I can get