You may find that Mandriva Discovery is missing gfortran which is necessary for compiling R - having recently compiled it on a mandriva free edition. You may need to add appropriate package repositories to the package management system - http://easyurpmi.zarb.org is helpful for configuring Mandriva repositories. There may be some other dependencies missing from the Discovery distro which is the entry-level system, but these will all be in the repositories.
Paul Bivand Head of Analysis and Statistics Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion London On 27/02/07, Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/27/07, Bricklemyer, Ross S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All, > > > > I am a new user to Linux but I am familiar with R. I have previously > > used and installed R on a Windows platform without problems. I recently > > set up a dual boot system (XP_64, Mandriva) to run R on a Linux platform > > in order to more efficiently handle large datasets. I have not done > > compiling before, but read the R instructions and followed to my best > > ability. I downloaded the most recent tar and unpacked it into > > /usr/local/R_HOME. I was able to run ./configure and added the > > additional Linux packages necessary to compile. The problem arises > > using the 'make' command. When I run make I get an error that there is > > not a target or a makefile. There is, however, Makefile.in in the > > directory. I think I am close to getting this installed, but I am > > stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do not suppose that > > any of the pre compiled Linux versions (i.e. Debian, SuSe) available on > > CRAN mirrors would run on a Mandriva distro? > > You skipped a step. Unpack then run configure then run make. > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
