[R] Installation of R in Redhat Linux (64 bit)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Zeljko Vrba wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:27:45PM -0700, Santosh wrote:
>>
>> When I run the following:
>> nm /usr/lib64/R/library/stats/libs/stats.so | grep _gfortran_copy_string
>>
> You probably need to install libraries related to gfortran.

Yes, specifically libgfortran.  Look at rpm -qa | grep libgfortran to 
see what versions are installed (if any).

But how was R installed?  If this was installed from an RPM it should 
have satisfied such dependencies (and R-sig-fedora would be a more 
appropriate list).

I think the issue relates to the version of libgfortran, and I've seen 
it using binaries compiled on an older version of Fedora. Maybe that 
symbol is used by gfortran 4.1.x and not by 4.3.x, so is in 
libgfortran.so.1 but not in libgfortran.so.3.  If this were Fedora, I 
would be sugggesting installing the compat-libgfortran-41 RPM.

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