[R] R-packages installation problems

[Prof Brian Ripley]

How did you install R?  If from the F8 RPMs, it looks like you missed the 
R-devel RPM (which was always recommended to install packages, and has 
become necessary in the F8 RPM for 2.6.2).

Note that Fedora are responsible for making clear what you need to install 
from their re-packaged distributions (the R developers do not recommend 
splitting up R), so if this was not clear to you, please file a Fedora bug 
report.

See also https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-March/158262.html

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Roberto Cremonini wrote:

> Dear,
>
> I've installed the following R version on HP compaq 6710 b under Fedora 8:
>
> > version
> _
> platform i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> arch i386
> os linux-gnu
> system i386, linux-gnu
> status
> major 2
> minor 6.2
> year 2008
> month 02
> day 08
> svn rev 44383
> language R
> version.string R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
>
> When I try to install some R packages I receive the following message:
> [root at localhost R-packages]# R CMD INSTALL gtools_2.4.0.tar.gz
> * Installing to library '/usr/lib/R/library'
> * Installing *source* package 'gtools' ...
> ** libs
> gcc -m32 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -I/usr/include/R
> -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32
> -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -c
> setTCPNoDelay.c -o setTCPNoDelay.o
> setTCPNoDelay.c:1:15: error: R.h: No such file or directory
> setTCPNoDelay.c:2:24: error: Rinternals.h: No such file or directory
> setTCPNoDelay.c: In function ‘checkStatus’:
> setTCPNoDelay.c:66: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strncpy’
> setTCPNoDelay.c:66: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of
> built-in function ‘strncpy’
> setTCPNoDelay.c:72: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strerror’
> setTCPNoDelay.c:72: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘strncpy’ makes
> pointer from integer without a cast
> make: *** [setTCPNoDelay.o] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'gtools'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/gtools'
>
> Indeed R headers (R.h and Rinternals.h) don' t exist on my filesystem.
> Where can I find them? How can I install them?
>
> Thanks for help,
>
> Best regards, Roberto
>
>
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