[R] Install Rmpi on Fedora with mpich2 installed.

[Ye, Bin]

Hi, everyone,

I want to install Rmpi on a cluster with Fedora linux. It already installed mpich2, but not lam-mpi. I installed R-2.2.0 on it already.

And I got error as below:

* Installing *source* package 'Rmpi' ...
Try to find mpi.h ...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking mpi.h usability... no
checking mpi.h presence... no
checking for mpi.h... no
Try to find mpi.h ...
Cannot find mpi head file
Please check if --with-mpi=/usr/local/mpich2/bin/ is right
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'Rmpi'
** Removing '/usr/local/R-2.2.0/library/Rmpi'

Somehow it can not find the mpi.h which is in usr/local/mpich2. Can anyone kindly give me some hint on what should be done? Will installing lam-mpi solve the problem? If so, should mpich2 be uninstalled first? Or just modify the path will do?

Thanks a lot!


Bin