Re: [R] installing the x86_64 R Binary on Fedora Core 5

2006-08-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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

Re: [R] installing the x86_64 R Binary on Fedora Core 5

2006-08-24 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
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

Re: [R] installing the x86_64 R Binary on Fedora Core 5

2006-08-24 Thread roger bos
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

Re: [R] installing the x86_64 R Binary on Fedora Core 5

2006-08-24 Thread Stefan Grosse
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

Re: [R] installing the x86_64 R Binary on Fedora Core 5

2006-08-24 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
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

[R] installing the x86_64 R Binary on Fedora Core 5

2006-08-24 Thread roger bos
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