I'm aware R-devel no longer includes zlib. This works find on up-to-date Linux systems.
On the older Centos 6 cluster at KU, they have zlib tool old for R-devel. The R-devel configure fails thus: checking if zlib version >= 1.2.5... no checking whether zlib support suffices... configure: error: zlib library and headers are required In other software, I've seen this kind of thing, so I installed zlib 1.2.8 into $HOME/packages and I can verify that the right pieces are installed there. Now I need you to tell me how to tell R to use that. Guesses so far: $ export PATH=$HOME/packages/bin:$PATH $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/packages/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH What R's configure statement needs to find zlib in my user account? In R-devel, the ./configure --help doesn't give me a simple-enough explanation of what I'm supposed to do. I thought I had a solution by adding this --with-libpth-prefix=$HOME/packages but still rejection, new zlib not found. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org http://crmda.ku.edu ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
