[R-sig-Debian] General question

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Bhupendrasinh Thakre
<vickythakre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently working in Linux server and wanted to play with our beautiful R software over there. However as its a company server and have lots of restrictions so I am thinking to install it in my home directory. I have three questions in this regard.
>
> 1. Is it possible.
> 2. Is it safe for me and my company data.
> 3. How can I do that.

1+3. yes, but it takes some effort

I've been in much the same situation for years, and have routinely
installed R from source in my
home directory.  Our systems run locally developed software, so do
have compilers, generally
from a "build-essential" package, but are missing some 3rd party dev
packages needed
to compile R and additional libraries.  I generally end up installing
3rd party libraries from
source to fill in the gaps: run configure, check for important missing
headers and libraries, install
them, and repeat until configure finds everything you need.

2.  "safety" is much too involved to provide a serious answer here,
but it is worth noting that some
organizations that take security seriously have policies that require
building everything they use
from source.


> Please help me to solve this questions and thanking you in advance for the helpful comments and guidance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Bhupendrasinh Thakre
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