R-commander installation in openSUSE

February 14, 2011

(This article was first published on Misanthrope's Thoughts, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

Thanks to this post I was able to install R-commander in openSUSE. I've modified recipe a bit and don't want to search for it the next time.

You have to perform several steps:

Install R-base and R-base-devel packages from here.
Install gfortran :~> sudo zypper install gcc-fortran
:~> su
[as root] start R : # R
In R console type > install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies=TRUE)
You will receive several warnings after installation - fuck that shit.
In R console type > library(Rcmdr). A warning window about missing packages will appear - click Ok to allow installation.
In R console type > library(Rcmdr) and enjoy R-commander!

P.S. R is a powerful programme, but it has a shitty name to search for. I was close to start shitting bricks when tried to find repositories with R in the first place.

UPD: you could also need (al least for another libraries installation) following packages: xorg-x11-devel, mesa-devel, gcc-c++, libpng-devel, tcltk.

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