Ahh that's the beauty of gentoo Linux and emerge. You get to compile from source, but at the same time it keeps track of what you have done. There is now a Freshmeat project for emerge on other platforms, so others can take advantage of this model if they wish.
Alan Jackson Staff Geophysicist Shell International Exploration and Production Inc. 3737 Bellaire Blvd, P O Box 481, Houston, Texas 77001-0481, USA Tel: +0117132457355 none Other Tel: +011-713-245-7355 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.shell.com/eandp-en -----Original Message----- From: Ben Bolker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 4:29 PM To: Jason Turner Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nathan Leon Pace, MD,MStat Subject: Re: [R] R for various ports of linux I've always built from source and almost never had to do anything beyond "tar zxf sources.tgz; ./configure; make; make install" (on various Red Hat versions). On the other hand ... I've been hoping to move in the direction of an apt- or rpm-based solution to get a better handle on tracking package versions etc. etc. across multiple machines ... It does seem as though the Debian folks (Eddelbuettel [sp]?) are very quick about packaging apt versions ... Ben On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Jason Turner wrote: > Nathan Leon Pace, MD, MStat wrote: > > > To all: > > > > I currently download the R binaries for Redhat 7.x Linux. > > > > There is considerable turmoil in the vendors of Linux. Redhat apparently > > is changing it's business model to paid versions. > > > > This might motivate my department to use a different vendor of Linux. > > > > Is there anything predictable about which vendors/versions of Linux will > > have R binaries in the future? > > Short answer: build from source. You won't regret it. > > Long answer: > The "build from source" approach is remarkably painless under any Linux > distribution I've tried (RH, SuSE, Slackware, et. al.). It's also > painless under Solaris. > > The days of having to be a programmer to build R from source have been > over for years. If you're computer literate enough to use R, you're > probably over-qualified to build from sources. > > Kudos to R-core for their attention to detail in making what's > complicated "under the hood" quite simple for the end user. > > Alternate answer: > If you absolutely must have binaries, there will be binaries as long as > there are users of your OS with time they wish to commit to building > them. This may be where your sysadmin steps in :) > > Cheers > > Jason > -- 620B Bartram Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zoology Department, University of Florida http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker Box 118525 (ph) 352-392-5697 Gainesville, FL 32611-8525 (fax) 352-392-3704 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
