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

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi Stan,

I haven't used SuSE for four years now, but the errors all point to libraries and programs that need to be installed. I used in on a 32-bit machine then.

As I recall, SuSE used to have a fabulous installation tool called yast2 (in my opinion, the best of the lot in packaging), though FC seems to have done something similar with pirut. In any case, isn't this option available with SuSE for 64-bit machines? That would be really strange. Anyway, I distinctly recall that R was in the SuSE package in those days, so perhaps it should still be there (I think the package used to be called r-stat, but my memory is a little unclear on this.)

If so, you are better off installing that because the dependencies are installed automatically. The other option is to use yum or synaptic, but you will need to set the repositories up.

I am curious: why choose SuSE? It used to be the rage some time ago, especially because it was one of the first with a GUI installation interface, and the above mentioned YaST tool, but fewer people use seem to use it nowadays. 

HTH.

Best,
Ranjan







On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:36:47 -0400 Stan Horwitz <stan at temple.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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