Andrew,

I'm running R under 8.10 right now (on a dual-booted macbook) and it's been
a great. Apt (the package manager) takes care of the dependencies for you,
so the install is really worry-free.

Josh Stumpf

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Wilson, Andrew
<eiaaw@exchange.lancs.ac.uk>wrote:

> It looks as if installing R under Ubuntu 8.10 is going to be much more
> complicated than I thought it was going to be.
>
> I hadn't realized that it would depend on installing so many other
> packages (about 23, it seems), many of which also have their own
> dependencies.
>
> So I wondered whether all of these are really essential, and whether
> there is a single package anywhere that includes them all for a one-off
> download?  (As I mentioned before, my home computer is not an
> internet-connected machine, and I download files for installation to my
> pen drive at work.)
>
> I'm also wondering whether it might be easier simply to copy across my
> Windows version of R and run it with WINE.  Has anyone tried this?  Does
> it work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Wilson
>
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