Does ess (>= 5.3.10) now require R ?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 December 2008 at 21:55, Stephen Eglen wrote:
| To debug this on my ubuntu box, do I just need to remove R and then try
| to 'install ess package'?  If so, how do I 'install ess package'?  Sorry
| for the obvious question, but I assume its not just a case of 
| 'apt-get install ess' which is about as far as my regular debian
| knowledge goes!

R and some other goodies are provided by Vincent and Michael for x86 and
amd64 via CRAN, see $CRAN_MIRROR/bin/linux/Ubuntu for a detailed README.

So my machine at work has this 

    deb http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu intrepid/

in /etc/apt/sources.list to use it.

They already rebuilt 5.3.10 for hardy and intrepid based on the Debian builds
I did on the weekend.

In this particular case, you could also have fedged the .deb package from
Debian via http://packages.debian.org/ess 

Thanks again for looking into this!

Dirk

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