> Sun Studio 11 compilers (which are now a free download). > A set of Open Source tools from www.sunfreeware.com in /usr/sfw. > A large set of Open Source tools in /opt/csw. > > The latter was new to me, and uses a repository at www.blastwave.org and > a nifty tool called 'pkg-get'. My sysadmin (who has an HP-UX and Debian > bias) thought this was the best he had seen, ahead of apt-get and yum, > for example. This box already had everything I needed to build R, > including
Your sysadmin will change his mind the first time that blastwave packages totally f*ck one of his machines. They're usually a bit stale. Building your own kit is much more reliable... --elijah ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
