[R] R installation on Linux

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

[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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