[R] R installation on Linux

[Richards, Tom]

You only need to get the blas and lapack rpm's and install them.
Then all works perfectly well with installing subselect.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richards, Tom [mailto:richards at biounix3.upci.pitt.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 12:15 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [R] R installation on Linux
> 
> 
> 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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