[R] Installing R-1.5.0 on Linux

[Martyn Plummer]

Stephen Eglen provides RPMS of R for Red Hat 6.x
You will find these on CRAN ( cran.r-project.org ).

Martyn


On 17-May-2002 Aboubakar Maitournam wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am sorry in advance because probably my question was already
> discussed.
> I have installed an R  version  R-1.3.1 on Linux RedHat 6.2.
> As I want to install R-1.5.0, I have first followed a suggestion of
> Peter
> Dalgaard (mail in FAQ) in order to keep the version R-1.3.1 by renaming
> /usr/local/lib/R and /usr/local/bin/R (/usr/local/lib/R-1.3.1 and
> /usr/local/bin/R-1.3.1 )and then set R_HOME_DIR to the new location.
> Now  I run R by typing R-1.3.1
> 
> After keeping the version R-1.3.1, I have tried to install R-1.5.0.
> But when I try to untar R-1.5.0.z.tgz with
> tar xvfz R-1.5.0 I get at the end  the following error message:
> 
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> So the commands ./configure and make are not operated. I don't know how
> to continue
> the installation.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Aboubakar.
> 
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