Re: [R] Problem Installing a local package in linux

2011-10-27 Thread sambit rath
Dear Paul, Thanks for the response. I could resolve the problem. The problem, as you had rightly pointed out, was the absence of the gfortran package called libgfortran41. I located the rpm and installed it. This contains libgfortran.so.1. That does it. Thanks again. sambit On 27 October 2011

Re: [R] Problem Installing a local package in linux

2011-10-27 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Hi, Yea Linux! I think you are missing a library file (libgfortran.so.1), you can use locate to try and find the so file, in bash type: locate libgfortran Now three things can happen: - It doesn't find anything, than you need to install an additional gfortran package. This is often called libgfo

[R] Problem Installing a local package in linux

2011-10-27 Thread sambit rath
Dear all, I am "still" fairly new to R and newer still to linux (opensuse). I want to install a package called "FEAR" from "http://www.clemson.edu/economics/faculty/wilson/Software/FEAR/fear-download.html";. So, I downloaded the tar.gz file called "FEAR-linux-64bit-2.6.16.60-0.21-smp.tar.gz" and