Thanks for your replies. I understand you think the best solution is to find the gfortran and possibly libgfortran packages from the version of my Linux and gcc distribution which according to a quick check is the following (also this is a 64 bit linux machine):
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The question is do you know where I can find a free gfortran package from this distribution and would I need to completely reinstall the gcc package from that version that includes gfortran and other compilers or can I simply add gfortran to my existing packages? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-linux-install-FORTRAN-compiling-error-tp2240821p2241731.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.