[R] installing mclust and flexmix on linux

[Uwe Ligges]

Tim F Liao wrote:
> I've been trying to install some R packages such as mclust and flexmix on linux but have had the following error messages.
> 
>> I've been trying to install mclust on my notebook which has linpus linux lite os and I have installed R as well as some packages all right.  However, when I tried to install mclust, it gave me the following messages.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> ++++++++++++++++
>  install.packages('mclust','/usr/lib/R/library',destdir='/usr/tmp')
> trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib/mclust_3.1-10.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 231992 bytes (226 Kb)
> opened URL
>  ==================================================
> downloaded 226 Kb
> 
> * Installing *source* package 'mclust' ...
> ** libs
> WARNING: R include directory is empty -- perhaps need to install R-devel.rpm or similar


So, have you installed the header files / include directory?

Uwe Ligges



> /usr/lib/R/bin/SHLIB: line 162: make: command not found
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'mclust'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/mclust'
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("mclust", "/usr/lib/R/library", destdir = "/usr/tmp") :
>  installation of package 'mclust' had non-zero exit status
> 
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