Dear Abdel The Mandriva repositories seem to have only 18 packages in the Contrib repositories. These seem to be dependencies of various GUI flavours (the repositories include rattle, Rcmdr (as R-cran-Rcmdr) and the non-CRAN rkward.
Beyond that, yes you require the build tools. You should have gcc already, but the fortran compiler needs adding from repositories, as does a range of devel rpms. From memory, these include those for the X-server as well as readLine. Other failures exist, as well as warnings (you can build R without Cairo or tcl/tk, but you lose capabilities). The R documentation is good on the programs you will need to build R - and the issue about *devel rpms is similar to Fedora, as far as I know.Read this manual section http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Essential-and-useful-other-programs-under-Unix for a necessary guide. -------------------------------------------------------- Paul Bivand Head of Analysis and Statistics Direct Line: 020 7840 8335 Inclusion has a launched a new website, please visit: www.cesi.org.uk Inclusion 3rd floor, 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP Tel: 020 7582 7221 Fax: 020 7582 6391 Inclusion website: www.cesi.org.uk Consider the environment - do you really need to print this email? The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please return the e-mail to the sender and delete from your mailbox. The Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion is a company limited by guarantee. Registered in England & Wales number 2458694. Registered address: 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP 2008/9/26 Abdel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Paul, > > Thanks for your help. I did not have a go yet at installing R, but will > do it shortly. > I have another related query, and your help is greatly appreciated. > Eventually I am going to read netcdf files in R, do I need other packages > and/or softwares beside R-base (e.g. fortran compiler , etc.) or simply > R-packages (available online perhaps) will do this for me? > > Thanks > Abdel > Reading University > > Paul Bivand wrote: >> >> You'll find that r-base and some packages are in the standard Mandriva >> repositories. However, Mandriva tends to fix its packages with its >> release dates. Mandriva 2008.1 has R 2.6.2 in repositories and the >> upcoming Mandriva 2009 (currently in release candidate) has 2.7.2 (but >> only base). If you haven't added all the mandriva repositories then >> easyurpmi (google for it) will add them for you. >> >> I compile from source, which is relatively easy once you have a build >> system loaded from Mandriva repositories. >> >> The errors and warnings from ./configure tell you what you need. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> Paul Bivand >> Head of Analysis and Statistics >> Direct Line: 020 7840 8335 >> >> Inclusion has a launched a new website, please visit: www.cesi.org.uk >> >> Inclusion >> 3rd floor, 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP >> Tel: 020 7582 7221 >> Fax: 020 7582 6391 >> Inclusion website: www.cesi.org.uk >> >> Consider the environment - do you really need to print this email? >> >> The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are intended solely >> for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient >> please return the e-mail to the sender and delete from your mailbox. >> >> The Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion is a company limited by >> guarantee. Registered in England & Wales number 2458694. Registered >> address: 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP >> >> >> >> 2008/9/24 Abdelwaheb Hannachi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I am looking to install R on Mandriva-linux. But on the UK mirror site I >>> found only Debian, Redhat, Suse, and Ubuntu, but not Mandriva. >>> >>> Any help would be greatly appreciated >>> Thanks >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------------ >>> Abdel Hannachi >>> Reading, UK >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >>> > > ______________________________________________ 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.
