[R] 2 "linux/R environment" questions

[Stefan Grosse]

Joe Byers schrieb:
> JGR, when I manually compiled it for my system by specifying my location 
> of java 1.5.0_06, worked fairly nicely.  The autoinstall does not find 
> my installation of this java version since Redhat EL4 does not support 
> it.  Redhat EL5 will in the near future.  Maybe JGR will autoinstall then.
>   


Can you tell how you worked that out (the manual compilation)? I failed
on Fedora Core 5 with JRE 1.5.0_08 with install.packages and dep=true. I
tried a hint from the JGR mailing list but failed...

Stefan Grosse