[R] install R under suse: packages dependency

[François Pinard]

[zhihua li]

>I'm trying to install R 2.3.0 under Suse 10.0.   As I'm using SSH to 
>login into the SUSE server, I can't use YAST2,

I presume this is because you cannot remotely mount the CD's or DVD's?  
The next time you visit your server, if possible, copy your distribution 
media to your hard disks, you'll find out that this is really a useful 
thing to do.  You can later use YaST2 to install from the copies you 
made, even remotely.  There is no problem using YaST2 over SSH, either 
in graphical mode (if you used `ssh -X') or in text mode.

In my experience, R 2.3.0 installs painlessly under SuSE 10.0, and needs 
nothing which is not already available on the distribution media.  
Should I say, I'm still impressed (even astonished) that R installation 
succeeds so easily, given the size and complexity of the distribution.

-- 
François Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca