[R] help installing packages

[Thomas Lumley]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Rose Amanda Hoberman wrote:

> 
> I was trying to install a package but received this error message:
> 
> >R INSTALL KernSmooth_2.22-3.tar.gz 
> 
> Installing package `KernSmooth' ...
>  libs
> g77   -fPIC  -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -g -c blkest.f -o blkest.o
> make: g77: Command not found
> make: *** [blkest.o] Error 127
> 
> Must I have a fortran compiler to install R packages?

Yes, if the package uses fortran. This one does, but many others don't.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._