[R] Mandriva Spring 2007 and R

[Michael Bibo]

Roland Rau <roland.rproject <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> Jonathan Morse wrote:
> > I am new to Linux (not to R) and recently installed Mandriva Spring 2007 
on my partitioned hard drive.  My
> next objective is to install R in the Linux environment, unfortunately 
Mandriva is not one of the Linux
> distributions available for download...  Could someone please let me know 
which distribution I should
> use?  
> > 
> One possibility is, of course, that you compile it yourself for your 
> computer. Compiling R was my first shot at compiling programs when I was 
> new to Linux, and it was not very difficult. It is described nicely in 
> the R Installation Administration Manual.
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html
> 
> Basically, you only need to take care of the following steps to get you 
> started:
> - did you download and unpack the source distribution (see section 1.1 
> of the manual)?
> - do you have the required tools installed (see section A.1 of the 
> manual)? (C compiler, Fortran compiler, libreadline, libjpeg, libpng, 
> tex/latex, Perl5, xorg-x11-dev)
> - compilation (see section 2.1 in the manual)
> 
> I hope this helps?
> 
> Best,
> Roland
> 
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> 
Just to add to Roland's comments - remember to install the "-dev" packages for 
all of the tools he mentions.  I learned this from the R installation manual, 
and it has been valuable in installing other software from source.  The output 
from "./configure" will usually tell you if something is missing.

Personally, I no longer use Mandriva, but comments I made re v10.1 may or may 
not be relevant: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/54320.html.

Hope this helps,

Michael