[R] installation of the gsl package on Suse 10.1

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, luca laghi wrote:

> I am trying to install the gsl  package.
> I had gsl installed with YaSt in /usr/lib.
> when I launch R as superuser and launch install.packages, it says in
> cannot find Gnu Scientific Library. How can I make it find them?

Please tell us the exact messages you get.

At a quess, you need gsl-devel (or gsl-dev or some such) as well as gsl.

> Thank you,
> Luca Laghi
>
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

PLEASE do!

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