[R] Installing R on a machine with 64-bit Opteron processors

[Stan Horwitz]

I have been tasked with installing statistical and other data  
analysis applications on a new Sun Fire X4600 M2 x64 server that came  
equipped with eight AMD dual core Opteronn 64-bit processors. It is  
running the 64-bit version of Suse Linux 9.

I have read through the installation docs, and I guess I don't  
understand what to do, or even how to identify which version, if any,  
of this software is suitable for my computer environment.

What I want to know is if R has been ported to that environment and  
if so, how do I install it? I tried downloading it from one of the  
mirror web sites, and when I install it, I get

  euler src/R-base-2.4.1# rpm -i R-base-2.4.1-2.1.i586.rpm
warning: R-base-2.4.1-2.1.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID  
6b9d6523
error: Failed dependencies:
         xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
         xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
         xorg-x11-libs is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
         blas is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
         libreadline.so.5 is needed by R-base-2.4.1-2.1
euler src/R-base-2.4.1#

I also tried the x386 version with the same results.

The documentation lists some prerequisite items to install such as  
blas, but I have searched and I can't see to locate that software. Is  
it public domain or a commercial product? I also see that my server  
already has x11 fonts installed, so I don't know what those errors  
are about.

Here's what rpm says about fonts ...

fontconfig-2.2.92.20040221-28.13
fontconfig-32bit-9-200407011229
fontconfig-devel-32bit-9-200407011229
ghostscript-fonts-other-7.07.1rc1-195.8
XFree86-fonts-75dpi-4.3.99.902-43.71
fontforge-20060715-7.3
ghostscript-fonts-std-7.07.1rc1-195.8
fontconfig-devel-2.2.92.20040221-28.13
xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.9.0-48
efont-unicode-0.4.0-630.1

So isn't "xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.9.0-48" what it wants? I guess  
not. Is there a list of what this software needs AND where to  
download or purchase each item for Suse 9?

I am also wondering if this list has searchable archives? The list's  
web site shows archived postings, but I don't see a way to search them.