[R] SuSE package

[alexander volovics]

Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: 

>> R should be very easy to compile from scatch on most Linux systems, 
>> though. (I seem to recall a caveat with SuSE and the readline library, 
>> but someone here can probably help you out) 

Wendelin Reich wrote:

> Yes. SuSe seems to install an old version of readline, so all you have 
> to do is to compile and install a newer version of it. 

I beg to differ (if both of you are referring to readline 2.2):

Using SuSE 5.3 'straight out of the box', without any changes or additions,
I have compiled succesfully both R-0.62.3 and R-0.63.0 (using gcc and f2c).
And everything seems to work without problems.

Though SuSE 5.3 contains readline 2.1 (packaged together with bash!)
configure and make run without complaining.

The only problem I have with SuSE is with f2c and then ONLY with
Jim Lindsey's library 'repeated' (probably because it contains Fortran90?)
The RedHat 5.1 f2c compiles 'repeated' without any problems. 

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Alexander Volovics
Dept of Methodology & Statistics
Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL
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