[R] [Fwd: Re: R on Mandriva 2006]

[Christophe Pouzat]

Hi Ioannis and Paolo,

As Ioannis recommends getting the last R source (R-2.2.1) is better and 
does not require much effort.
If you want the compilation to go smoothly on Mandriva 2006 you should 
first use drakconf to download and install:

gfortran
readline
blas

which are not installed by default by the powerpack (or free) distribution.

Then follow the basic Unix/Linux intructions (to compile from sources) 
on the R Installation and Administration Manual (ie, "tar -xvzf 
R-2.2.1.tar.gz", "cd R-2.2.1", "./configure", "make", "make check", 
"make install").

Mandriva 2006 uses gcc-4.0.1, etc. On my machine (Intel PIV) all the 
tests went fine.

Christophe.

Ioannis Dimakos a Ã©crit :

>Apologies for the empty post that went to the list...
>
>On Î¤ÎµÏ„, Î”ÎµÎºÎ­Î¼Î²ÏÎ¹Î¿Ï‚ 28, 2005 9:11, Paolo Bulla wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello anyone,
>>I'm trying to install R on Mandriva 2006 distribution via rpm file with the
>>line
>>urpmi R-2.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
>>    
>>
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>This is an older rpm that Michele Alzeta contributed for Mandrake 10.0
>(and that was a long time ago, before Mandrakesoft merged with Connectiva
>to become Mandriva).  And it is for R-2.0.0
>
>In my experience with Mandrake distros, I have found it is easy to
>download the most recent sources and compile your own version of R.
>
>
>  
>
>>I also tried with a source code in R-2.1.1.tar but I think that there is
>>    
>>
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Unless you have a typo, this is also an older version of R.  Get the newer
>sources and recompile.  I don't know if Michele is still active in
>maintaining R for Mandrake.  But he has a site for R and Mandrake in
>italian and this may provide some first clues.
>
>HTH,
>
>Ioannis
>  
>