On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, vaneet wrote:
Is there any way I can get an RPM that has all the necessary packages built
in to install and run R? Or do I have to find all these packages that are
needed to install these 'R' rpms for which many are not found on the
FedoraProject website (libgfortran, gcc-fortran....). Also which 'R' rpm
would I use to simply run R on the linux machine, would it be R-core?
This is really a usage issue of Fedora and its package
dependency solving and retrieval tool 'yum' and of the
author's unfamiliarity with the tools
error: Failed dependencies:
R-core = 2.11.0-1.el5 is needed by R-devel-2.11.0-1.el5.x86_64
bzip2-devel is needed by R-devel-2.11.0-1.el5.x86_64
gcc-gfortran is needed by R-devel-2.11.0-1.el5.x86_64
libX11-devel is needed by R-devel-2.11.0-1.el5.x86_64
pcre-devel is needed by R-devel-2.11.0-1.el5.x86_64
pkgconfig is needed by R-devel-2.11.0-1.el5.x86_64
tcl-devel is needed by R-devel-2.11.0-1.el5.x86_64
tetex-latex is needed by R-devel-2.11.0-1.el5.x86_64
tk-devel is needed by R-devel-2.11.0-1.el5.x86_64
All of these except 'R-core' are present to a base Fedora or
RHEL system through use of that 'yum' tool (which is somewhat
like 'apt-get' for those from a Debian background; the R-core
pachage is almost certainly adjacent to the R package you are
trying to install
The suggestions of others about ancient versions and so forth
are speculation, and not accurate, and acting to take
'curative steps' upon such speculation will almost certainly
damage the integrity of a RHEL installation
I build, and 'spot' of Red Hat build R packages that install
without issue on Fedora, and for me, for CentOS [a community
rebuild of RHEL] While I have not had occasion to build the
latest release over the weekend, I am certain I shall without
a need for the invasive changes noted
There is a support list for just this in the R list heirarchy,
to which such questons might properly be taken
r-sig-fedora.r-project.org
which is not limited solely to the Fedora users of the RPM
packaging system
-- Russ herrold
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