Re: [R] Installing randomForest on Ubuntu Errors

2010-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Steve, The list r-sig-debian is a more appropriate forum for this question as it is dedicated to R on Debian / Ubuntu. On 10 May 2010 at 08:24, steve_fried...@nps.gov wrote: | | Hello, | | I've tried to install randomForest on a Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron system. | | I've repeatedly rec'd the er

Re: [R] Installing randomForest on Ubuntu Errors

2010-05-10 Thread Liaw, Andy
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 s

[R] Installing randomForest on Ubuntu Errors

2010-05-10 Thread Steve_Friedman
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