[R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0
Ulises M. Alvarez
umalvarez at fata.unam.mx
Fri Jan 14 03:00:12 CET 2005
Just for the sake of clarity:
Ubuntu does include developer tools ('apt-get install build-essential').
Liaw, Andy wrote:
> If I have to guess, `desktop Linux' such as Xandros do not come with
> compilers and other development tools, so compiling from source will be a
> bit of a challenge. I recall having played with Corel Linux during its
> rather short lifetime (also Debian based), and was horrified to find it
> lacking GCC. Apparently people who make up such distros have the same view
> as Mr. Gates that compilers need not be part of a desktop OS.
>
> (If I'm not mistaken, Unbuntu has the same problem. However, apt-get is
> _really_ easy...)
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
>>From: Marc Schwartz
>>
>>On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:15 -0500, Thomas W Volscho wrote:
>>
>>>Dear List,
>>>After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too
>>
>>much, I installed Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty
>>easy to use if migrating from WinXP.
>>
>>>Does anyone know how to install R on this OS?
>>>
>>>Thank you for your time,
>>>Tom Volscho
>>
>>If it is Debian based, it seems that you should be able to use apt-get
>>to install base R and many of the CRAN packages that Dirk has packaged
>>up.
>>
>>Alternatively, you can download the source tarball and
>>compile using the
>>typical:
>>
>>./configure
>>make
>>make install (as root)
>>
>>I would of course defer to Dirk and other Debian experts here.
>>
>>You might also want to look at Dirk's Quantian distribution, which is
>>based upon Knoppix and includes R:
>>
>
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
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