I believe i did last night: a cran site in Pittsburgh, with a "Install" link that I believe you are referring to, it just didnt work, unless you are referring to a different web site. The r site, eventually leads to a list of install choices ( download from different locations , such as michigan, pittsburgh, etc) Your example is Iowa?
Not having GCC preinstalled ( C and Fortran ) might be a factor. When you install LInux, it should just install GCC , just like that. I mean, that's just wrong. this blog post sheds some light maybe: http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=show&id=70&perpage=1&pagenum=5 When you install from source ( which I can't , because I can't figure out how to install GCC) , does the source install have binary dependencies? On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Cedrick W. Johnson <cedr...@cedrickjohnson.com> wrote: > see below: > > Robert Wilkins wrote: >> >> Can't figure out how the install works, it is certainly not automatic. >> Also , the "Install" option on the R web site for Suse 11.1 does not work. >> And the install software native to Suse, cannot figure out. >> >> Does Suse have more problems installing software than Fedora or Ubuntu? >> > > Did you try installing the RPMS listed under your favorite CRAN mirror? > (note, I didn't use the "install" links for the Readme file, I think you > could grab these using 'wget' > > http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/suse/11.1/RPMS/i586/R-base-2.9.0-2.1.i586.rpm > -and devel- > http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/suse/11.1/RPMS/i586/R-base-devel-2.9.0-2.1.i586.rpm > > You may also have to compile R from source... > >> Or is this a hassle for any Linux distro? And Windows? >> > > My windows installs have been relatively hassle-free (5 workstations). I > just finished setting up a small cluster (3) of ubuntu R instances in under > 30 minutes. So, your mileage may vary. I've found Ubuntu to be rather simple > to install R instances. > > Hope this helps > c > > > ============================= > *Cedrick W. Johnson* > aolim) cedrickjcvgr > www.cedrickjohnson.com > *New York - Chicago* > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
