On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Terry Therneau <[email protected]> wrote:
> I fired up a new machine last night and loaded Ubuntu 8.10 on it. I then had > to add in the usual compiler stuff which is not loaded by default: make, > emacs, > fortran, c++, etc. > I'm having trouble compiling R 2.8 however. I get a message that it cannot > figure out how to link f77 and C. I've pulled in "gfortran". A google search > on "fortran ubuntu 8.10" shows various problems with the gcc switch from > fortran77 to fortran95 --- also true for R? > Any hints are welcome, including "don't use 8.10" (thought that will be an > evening of work). Read http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu to learn how to add the CRAN repository to your package search path then install the r-base and r-base-dev packages. If you want all the development packages to allow you to compile and install development versions of R then run sudo apt-get build-dep r-base and all the required packages will be magically added. If you want to see exactly how Dirk has set up the compilation of R under Debian then install the wajig package, run cd /tmp wajig build r-base and sit back and enjoy. Finally note that the mailing list R-SIG-Debian is more suitable for questions related to Debian and Debian-derived distributions like Ubuntu. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
