[R] R on Mandriva

[Abdel]

 Dear Paul,

 Thanks for your help. I did not have a go yet at installing R, but will
 do it shortly.
   I have another related query, and your help is greatly appreciated.
  Eventually I am going to read netcdf files in R, do I need other packages
 and/or softwares beside R-base (e.g. fortran compiler , etc.) or simply
 R-packages (available online perhaps) will do this for me?

 Thanks
 Abdel
 Reading University

Paul Bivand wrote:
> You'll find that r-base and some packages are in the standard Mandriva
> repositories. However, Mandriva tends to fix its packages with its
> release dates. Mandriva 2008.1 has R 2.6.2 in repositories and the
> upcoming Mandriva 2009 (currently in release candidate) has 2.7.2 (but
> only base). If you haven't added all the mandriva repositories then
> easyurpmi (google for it) will add them for you.
>
> I compile from source, which is relatively easy once you have a build
> system loaded from Mandriva repositories.
>
> The errors and warnings from ./configure tell you what you need.
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> 2008/9/24 Abdelwaheb Hannachi <a.hannachi at reading.ac.uk>:
>   
>>  Hi there,
>>
>>  I am looking to install R on Mandriva-linux. But on the UK mirror site I
>> found only Debian, Redhat, Suse, and Ubuntu, but not Mandriva.
>>
>>  Any help would be greatly appreciated
>>  Thanks
>>
>> --
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>> Abdel Hannachi
>>  Reading, UK
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