[R] troubles installing R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Paul Hiemstra wrote:

> On 10/31/2011 06:30 PM, Cable, Sam B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI wrote:
>> I am trying to install R on a pretty up-to-date CentOS system.  I have
>> tried installing 2.14.0 and 2.13.2.  In both cases, the configure step
>> fails, and does not produce a Makefile.  So, of course, I can't issue
>> "make".
>>
>> The errors that I can find in config.log are, first, several missing
>> files: ac_nonexistent.h, minix/config.h., readline/history.h, and
>> readline/readline.h.
>>
>> Then, what seems to finally bring configure to a halt is the final
>> error:
>>
>> configure:20796: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs
>> are not available
>
> Hi,
>
> It seems that the header files/libs are not available... You probably
> need to install some development libraries from the CentOS repositories.
> like readline-dev or such. Installing these libraries and the header

readline-devel on CentOS.

> files will be available.

>From the INSTALL file:

   'The main source of information on installation is the `R Installation
   and Administration Manual', an HTML copy of which is available as file
   `doc/html/R-admin.html'.  Please read that before installing R.  But
   if you are impatient, read on but please refer to the manual to
   resolve any problems.'

and this *is* covered in the manual.  The volunteers who give you the 
free gift of R can (and do) write the manual for you, but we cannot 
read it for you.

>
> regards,
> Paul
>
>> After this error, configure dumps long lists of shell variables, output
>> variables, and confdefs.h -- none of which tell a whole lot, as far as I
>> can see -- and then exits with a status of "1".
>>
>> Anyone know what this means?  I can give bigger snippets of the
>> config.log, if anyone wants to see them.
>>
>> I have installed R on several Linux machines.  This is the first time
>> I've been stumped.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --Sam
>>
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