On Centos and most likely other RedHat/Fedora systems, gfortran is contained in the package gcc-gfortran. Install that package before trying to install R.
HTH, Peter On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:43 AM, ya <xinxi...@163.com> wrote: > Hi Rich, > > You mean, the R source code package contains the FORTRAN code? I install gcc > every time before I try to compile R, still, it shows lack of a bunch of > compilers... > > > > > ya > > From: Rich Shepard > Date: 2012-05-27 18:14 > To: r-help > Subject: Re: [R] linux > On Sun, 27 May 2012, ya wrote: > >> you may need to compile the source code yourself. Then you also need the >> F77 compiler. It seems most of the linux distro do not have this compiler. >> You need to find it online yourself. I never succeed in doing this. I >> would like to know how you proceed this compilation. I also want to >> install R on my tiny core linux. Good luck:) > > gfortran should be part of the gcc suite of compilers. On my Slackware > systems it's found as /usr/bin/gfortran. > > R, GRASS, and other applications incorporating FORTRAN code build with no > issues. > > Rich > > -- > Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity - Credibility - Innovation > Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Helping Ensure Our Clients' Futures > <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.