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_fried...@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. > Spatial Statistical Analyst > Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Park 950 N Krome Ave > (3rd Floor) Homestead, Florida 33034 > > steve_fried...@nps.gov > Office (305) 224 - 4282 > Fax (305) 224 - 4147 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachme...{{dropped:11}} ______________________________________________ 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.