[R-sig-Debian] A newbee problem compiling R in ubuntu.

[Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres]

Dear Paul:

Thank you for your help.

> Let me share you a handy thing I learned. You can get the commands
> that the R packages are built with, along with the source code.  Make
> a directory (this will download a bunch of stuff)
> 
> apt-get source r-base-core

If I do that, but I obtain r-base-2.10.1 not the last r-2.12.0 files.

How can I obtain them?

I want to use them to build my own R-patched 2.12.0 version when they 
arrive.

Thank you for your help.

I am using the cran.at.r-project.org mirror.
> 
> that should download a tarball of original R source code, a diff file
> that is applied to build R deb, and it will open the code and apply
> the diff.  You can look inside the directory, in a subdirectory
> "debian", where the configure files that control package building are
> kept.
> 
> If you type "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot"  in the directory where all
> that stuff got opened up (the one "above" the debian subdirectory), it
> will build the debian packages.  It would not be an incredibly
> difficult thing to replace that R source package with the new one you
> want to use.  But I don't think you need to.  Just look in the rules
> file under debian subdirectory, you will see the configure statement
> they use.  I think in there you'll also find information about what
> devel packages they assume you have.
> 
> I find it to be a little difficult to revise debian builds, so I don't
> really mean you ought to do that. But you could.  And I often have!
> 
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