[R] problems when installing R in Fedora core 4

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jonathan Baron wrote:

...

> Whether you have the needed files already depends on what kind of
> installation you did.  Some of the packages are "devel" and
> others are "compat".  Here is my list of "compat" rpms
> that I have installed, and I think I installed all of these just
> to get R to build:
>
> compat-libf2c-32-3.2.3-47.fc4
> compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.fc4
> compat-readline43-4.3-2
> compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.fc4
>
> My hunch is that I still do not have the optimal installation,
> but it is possible that the newest versions of gcc have solved
> some of the problems with the ones that originally came with
> FC4.  I've seen some discussion suggesting that the way to go is
> to use an older version of gcc, but I did not search for it just
> now.

See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-August/034171.html

for updates on that advice.  It may still be the way to go.


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