>From INSTALL: The main source of information on installation is the `R Installation and Administration Manual', an HTML copy of which is available as file `doc/html/R-admin.html'. Please read that before installing R. But if you are impatient, read on but please refer to the manual to resolve any problems.
Hint: you are missing the readline development RPMs, and that is covered in the manual you were asked to read. On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, John Dougherty wrote: > I have a generally successful compiled R 1.8.0 version installed on a SuSE 9.0 > system. One frustration however is that the basic keyboard functions of BASH > have not completely carried through and the up, down, left and right arrow > keys don't behave as they do on the regular shell command line. That is no > command history can be accessed and the cursor cannot be back-spaced over a > recalled command to edit it. I expect that I am missing a "--with-" statment > but I am not certain what it should be. Is there any help file that details > the fine points for compiling R? INSTALL does not contain the information I > am interested in. but it does tell you *exactly* where to look. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help