On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, roger bos wrote:
> Thanks so much Marc & Stefan! The GUI wasn't telling me what I was
> missing. The terminal told me I was missing tk-8.4.12-1.2.x86_64.rpm so I
> went and got that and it installed without errors. Then I could't figure
> out how to launch R through the GUI
Roger,
The Windows packages will not run on Linux. You will need to install
them using the Linux versions (.tar.gz files) of the CRAN packages.
You can copy them from a CRAN mirror to your USB drive and then install
them locally using
R CMD INSTALL PackageName.tar.gz
This will again need
Thanks so much Marc & Stefan! The GUI wasn't telling me what I was
missing. The terminal told me I was missing tk-8.4.12-1.2.x86_64.rpm so I
went and got that and it installed without errors. Then I could't figure
out how to launch R through the GUI so I went back to the terminal and typed
"R" a
Hi Roger,
I dunno what exactly might be the source of that mistake but I would
strongly recommend to install R while you are online. Often other
packages must be installed for dependencies.
(And then I recommend using the smart package manager (
http://labix.org/smart ) which is a great tool and
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 10:53 -0400, roger bos wrote:
> I am looking for help install the x86_64 R Binary onto my FC5 machine. At
> the risk of subjecting myself to tons of criticism, I must confess that I
> don't know anything about Linux and I have never compiled R from source.
> Therefore, I choo
I am looking for help install the x86_64 R Binary onto my FC5 machine. At
the risk of subjecting myself to tons of criticism, I must confess that I
don't know anything about Linux and I have never compiled R from source.
Therefore, I choose FC5 because I see that a 64-bit binary is already
availab