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 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
