[R] Compiling R

[Uwe Ligges]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, John Dougherty wrote:

> I have a generally successful compiled R 1.8.0 version installed on a SuSE 9.0 
> system.  One frustration however is that the basic keyboard functions of BASH 
> have not completely carried through and the up, down, left and right arrow 
> keys don't behave as they do on the regular shell command line.  That is no 
> command history can be accessed and the cursor cannot be back-spaced over a 
> recalled command to edit it.  I expect that I am missing a "--with-" statment 
> but I am not certain what it should be.  	Is there any help file that details 
> the fine points for compiling R?  INSTALL does not contain the information I 
> am interested in.
> 
> Thank you,
> jwdougherty
> 
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See the R Installation and Administration manual, available at CRAN and in
the sources.

Uwe Ligges