[R-sig-Debian] [R-sig-debian] compiling from source

[Vincent Goulet]

Le mar. 7 oct. à 14:24, Sebastian P. Luque a écrit :

> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:55:19 -0500,
> "Erin Hodgess" <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi R Debian People: I am aware that there are binaries for R for
>> Debian.
>
>> Is it ever necessary to compile from source, or should I just leave
>> well enough alone, please (high probability)?
>
>
> Depends on how quickly you want the latest R and what Debian branch
> you're using.  If you're using sid ("unstable"), i.e. you want to live
> on Debian's bleeding edge (closest to upstream), updating very
> frequently, and deal with "issues" from time to time, then I'd just  
> use
> the Debian packages (the maintainer, Dirk Eddelbuettel, keeps them
> barely hours behind the upstream releases).  If you're using other
> Debian branches, but still want to use the latest R, options get more
> complicated.

I'd beg to differ, here. The "unstable" packages usually migrate to  
"testing" after the latency period of ten days. As for "stable", the  
binary packages are available from CRAN; see

	http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian

Vincent

> I know it can be a pain, but it helps in the long run to
> carefully read the Debian documents like the material in the
> debian-reference-en package and http://www.debian.org/doc/ to make  
> sure
> you're doing what you want.
>
>
> -- 
> Seb
>
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