[R] Successful installation of R 2.0.1 on SUSE 9.1

[Min-Han Tan]

Hi,

We managed to compile R 2.0.1 on 64-bit SUSE Linux 9.1 on a HP
Proliant setup fairly uneventfully by following instructions on the R
installation guide. We did encounter a minor hiccup in setting up x11,
a problem which we note has been raised 4 or 5 times previously, but
this was overcome thanks to this recent post by Peter Dalgaard on SUSE
9.1 and R.https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-January/062397.html,
as well as previous comments on the mailing list.

One clarification on that post may be helpful: there are only 3
additional developmental packages required for successful X11
installation.

XFree86-devel-4.3.99.902-30
fontconfig-devel
freetype2-devel

These were not available in YAST (9.1 SUSE), but were located in

http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ 

Once again, thanks to the assorted R gurus and wizards for making this
mailing list such a great resource.

Regards,
Min-Han Tan