[R] R on Mandriva

[Paul Bivand]

Dear Abdel

The Mandriva repositories seem to have only 18 packages in the Contrib
repositories. These seem to be dependencies of various GUI flavours
(the repositories include rattle, Rcmdr (as R-cran-Rcmdr) and the
non-CRAN rkward.

Beyond that, yes you require the build tools. You should have gcc
already, but the fortran compiler needs adding from repositories, as
does a range of devel rpms. From memory, these include those for the
X-server as well as readLine. Other failures exist, as well as
warnings (you can build R without Cairo or tcl/tk, but you lose
capabilities).

The R documentation is good on the programs you will need to build R -
and the issue about *devel rpms is similar to Fedora, as far as I
know.Read this manual section
http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Essential-and-useful-other-programs-under-Unix
for a necessary guide.

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2008/9/26 Abdel <a.hannachi at reading.ac.uk>:
> 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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