[R-sig-Debian] Query about building R-2.3.1 for Ubuntu

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 9 June 2006 at 08:17, Adrian DUSA wrote:
| Hello Arin,
| 
| I doubt anyone has built a deb package for the latest release. 

Wrong. See e.g. one of  
	http://changelogs.debian.net/r-base
	http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/r-base.html
	
As all previous releases R 2.3.1 was in Debian within a day, in this case
within hours, of its release.

| What I do is to 
| compile R from sources. It takes about 15 minutes or so, but it's worth it: 
| you'll have a perfect installation for your box.
| I use this command (having previously installed tcl and tk and their 
| corresponding dev packages):
| 
| ./configure --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tcl8.4/tclConfig.sh 
| --with-tk-config=usr/lib/tk8.4/tkConfig.sh
| make
| sudo make install

And you miss several customizations and enhancements the package has. 

Regards, Dirk


| HTH,
| Adrian
| 
| On Thursday 08 June 2006 11:04, arin basu wrote:
| > Hi All:
| >
| > Is a distribution of R version 2.3.1 (the current version) available for
| > the Ubuntu Linux? If I want to build a .deb package for R-2.3.1 for Ubuntu,
| > are there specific requirements that I should be aware of? Is a tutorial
| > available? I searched the web, and the repositories, but oculd not locate
| > an appropriate file.
| >
| > TIA,
| > Arin Basu
| 
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