[R] Installing randomForest on Ubuntu Errors

[Liaw, Andy]

I don't know much about how permissions are managed under ubuntu, but
you can try a couple of things:

- Dirk had worked very hard at automating building of CRAN packages for
Debian (from which Ubuntu is based).  I believe randomForest is among
one of those available.  I'm not sure if you need to set up special
respository, but the idea is that you should be able to install R
packages via apt-get.

- Try installing in your home directory and see if that works:  Make a
directory under your home directory, e.g., called "Rlibs".  Then in R,
do install.packages("randomForest", lib.loc="~/Rlibs", depend=TRUE).  If
that works, then your original problem is likely caused by permission.

Andy

From: Steve_Friedman at nps.gov
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've tried to install randomForest on a Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy 
> Heron system.
> 
> I've repeatedly rec'd the error:
> 
> > install.packages("randomForest", dependencies = TRUE)
> 
> ERROR:  compiliation failed for package 'randomForest'
> ** Removing 
> '/home/admuser/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.6/randomForest'
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>    /tmp/RtmpkDsmTK/downloaded_packages
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("randomForest"", dependencies = TRUE) :
>   installation of package 'randomForest' had a non-zero exit status
> 
> >
> 
> The package loads correctly on my windows box, but not on the 
> linux side.
> 
> Is this package available for Ubuntu Linux, if so what should 
> I do to install it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> Steve Friedman Ph. D.
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