Building R from Source On CentOS

[Shekhar]

R can be installed on CentOS easily using "yum", but if you are
interested in doing development or writing a package/library of your
own, then you need to build it.
At first galnce through the documentation and web, i felt it would be
pretty easy to do, but once i started it took half a day to solve
it.There are lot of package dependencies which are not mentioned in
the docs.

Even though i would say it is not yet completed. (I have not
incorporated x11 package which i think is meant for graphics).

if you are unable to install R using Yum, then you can create
repository for R under /etc/yum.repos.d and rest yum will do the job.
I wrote R.repo something like this

[R-project]
name=R project for Statistical Computing repository
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Before building R, check whether the following packages are avaialable
on your system. The pre-requisite packages are as follows:

1. gcc
I am using 4.1.2 version .(gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat
4.1.2-51))

2. Perl ( Mine is 5.8.8)

3. make (3.81)

4. autoconf (2.59) [yum install autoconf]

5.automake(1.9.6) [yum install automake]

6. g77 or f77 compiler (Fortran compiler)

yum install compat-gcc-34-g

[Shekhar]

Sorry for the break.
Starting from the 6th step:

6. g77 or f77 compiler (Fortran compiler)

yum install compat-gcc-34-g77.x86_64

7. Install g++
yum install gcc-c++.x86_64

8. Install read line package
yum install readline-devel.x86_64

9.yum install gcc44-gfortran.x86_64

10.yum install gcc-gfortran.x86_64

11.yum install gcc44-c++.x86_64

We need to install X11 package for graphics, so i have installed
following libraries (Even though while building i got error, so i
parked this as of now). I have installed following packages for the
same

12. yum install libX11-devel.x86_64 (Already installed)

13. yum install libXtst-devel.x86_64
14. yum install xorg-x11-xtrans-devel.x86_64
15. yum install libpng-devel.x86_64

Follow the steps to build R
1. wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.14.1.tar.gz

2. tar -zxf R-2.14.1.tar.gz

3. cd R-2.14.1

4. ./configure --with-x=no

5. make

6. You can check by

make check
make check-all

7. create a environment variable export R_HOME="path to R"
and add bin to PATH variable

export PATH=$PATH:$R_HOME/bin

Thats it!!!!

I would suggest that keep R.repo, since most of the libraries are in R
base directory.

Now you can open R console by typing R . Hope this would help
somebody.

Regards,
Som Shekhar

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Som,

I happen to find out that your message is in the junk mail folder. (below one)

I am afraid that I might miss any mail you sent.

Could you let me know if it is or not?

Also pls let me know if you did any progress on the prerequisites I asked you.

Thank you.

Jinkyung Hwang

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2011. 12. 22. 오후 9:22 "Shekhar" <shekh...@gmail.com> 작성:

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