[R-sig-Debian] General question

[Bhupendrasinh Thakre]

Hi George,

Thank you very much for the information. I will try to do more research on the "installation" part from source. 

Best Regards,

Bhupendrasinh Thakre
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On Oct 9, 2012, at 7:57 PM, "George N. White III" <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> Sent from my iPhone
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