[R] R 1.8 for debian
Philippe Glaziou
glaziou at pasteur-kh.org
Tue Oct 21 03:31:35 CEST 2003
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
Sure, got uploaded the day of the 1.8 release. You may want to
> learn how to point apt at different archives. Debian has 1.8 in
> unstable; CRAN has it in testing (thanks to Doug Bates) and
> even in stable (thanks to Korbinian Strimmer)
Please, note also that if your debian box has the compilers and
header files required to compile R from source, then building
your own deb packages should be easy because the developers
included all relevant debian files in the sources. There is
little need to tweak /etc/apt/sources.list to get the latest
vintage of debianized R, nor to wait if you need non-intel
binaries.
sudo apt-get install fakeroot # if not already installed
tar xvzf R-1.8.0.tgz
cd R-1.8.0
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot # now is time to have a coffee...
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i r-* # this will install everything
--
Philippe
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