[R] Problem with installing Hmisc and Design: gfrotran: error

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Stephan Lindner wrote:

> cannot exec 'f951': No such file or directory
> Reply-To:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using R on an Suse Linux system. Since Hmisc and Design need both
> fortran, I installed gfortran (through rpm). However, I still get an
> error message, namely:
>
> gfrotran: error cannot exec 'f951': No such file or directory
>
> And the installation is cancelled. I tried solving the problem through
> googling it, and looking at the fortran and Hmisc page, but couldn't
> find any valuable information. It would be wonderful if anyone could
> help me.

Is there a confusion between 'gfortran' and 'gfrotran' here?  Assuming you 
used 'gfortran' comsistently, your compiler installation is incomplete.

This is really a SuSE Linux question, and you may do best to seek local 
SuSE advice: you haven't even told us the version you are using.

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