[R] Installing pkgs

[José Matos]

On Friday 29 August 2008 16:54:26 Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Nose Nada wrote:
> > Hello there!
> >
> > I'm running R  2.7.1 in a "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu" platform. While some
> > packages like "distrib" installed smoothly, I'm having problems to
> > install "nlme" and  "lattice". I have tried both "install.packages()" and
> > R CMD INSTALL. For example,
>
> [etc]
>
> Redhat/Fedora have an unfortunate habit of putting those header files in
> a separate RPM. Install R-devel and you should be fine.

We do that on purpose, not to make the task difficult for people to install R 
packages but because we have a very strict set of packaging rules that apply 
to all packages, not just R. :-)

Not also that if R provides R-devel still it will not work if the package 
source has fortran code. Or if the R package depends on other (external) 
libraries.

This is a problem that we are aware in Fedora and we would like to solve in a 
more general way. It would be nice if in such cases R would be able to advise 
what packages to install using a system hook.

-- 
José Abílio