R:Installation

The following procedure should be used to install R, snow, and Rmpi on a single machine.

The following procedures will lead to a working R installation (complete with rsnow and rmpi):


 * 1) Wherever you see the word 'version' in the following instructions, replace it with the applicable version number
 * 2) Download the latest R from here
 * 3) Uncompress
 * 4) type
 * $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/R-version CFLAGS=-O3 FFLAGS=-O3 && make && sudo make install
 * 1) R should now be successfully installed in /usr/local/R-version
 * 2) Download the latest snow and rmpi from here
 * 3) Install snow like this:
 * $ sudo /usr/local/R-version/bin/R CMD INSTALL snow_version.tar.gz
 * 1) Now install Rmpi
 * $ sudo /usr/local/R-version/bin/R CMD INSTALL rmpi_version.tar.gz--configure-args="--with-mpi=/usr/local/lam-version CC=mpicc"
 * 1) All done, should be good to go.