[R] R installation on Linux

[Richards, Tom]

Here is a related question on the same topic:

I have recently installed R 1.5.1, with rpm, under Redhat 7.3.  Things were going great, until I tried to install the package subselect, which said it needs BLAS.  Now, does this mean that I need to build R from scratch, including BLAS in the process, or is there a way to just install BLAS and then have subselect work?  Thanks in advance...

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dalgaard BSA [mailto:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:54 AM
> To: Steffen Durinck
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] R installation on Linux
> 
> 
> [Sorry, this got bounced because the original had "To:
> r-help at hypatia.math.ethz.ch" (??)]
> 
> Steffen Durinck <Steffen.Durinck at esat.kuleuven.ac.be> writes:
> 
> > Dear,
> > 
> > I'm new to both Linux and R. I've to build R from source code
> > and typed in the R-1.5.1 directory
> > 
> > ./configure
> > 
> > the configuration starts but after a few lines the 
> following error occurs:
> > 
> > checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: 
> C compiler
> > cannot create executables
> > 
> > what should i do?
> 
> Install the C compiler? or possibly development libraries.
> 
> If you look in the file config.log, there should be some hints about
> exactly what went wrong.
> 
> It might also be useful if you told us which Linux distribution we are
> talking about.
> 
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