> The only way I can see this happening is if you installed a > ix86 RPM on a > x86_86 system. You can do that and R will run, but you will > not be able to build packages out of the box.
This is exactly what happened. Now I know to use 'uname -a' to check machine architecture first. I was able to install the x86_64 version and then packages successfully. Thanks very much, Scott Waichler ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html