Gorjanc Gregor wrote: > same/similiar packaging system (dependencies, ...) as Debian. Is it wise > to mix all three methods?
Mixing R CMD and install.packages() doesn't pose any problems, AFAIK, but mixing any of them with apt-get does. The problem is that apt-get doesn't know what you're doing with R CMD or install.packages() or remove.packages(), so you may end up with duplicate packages (possibly in different places, see below). I generally try to leave as much package management up to the system, so I choose apt-get whenever possible. However, not all CRAN packages are available from Debian yet, so you may end up having to use install.packages() to install some packages. > Which method is prefered for installation of R packages under Debian linux? > - apt-get install R-package_name > - install.packages('R-package_name') > > I actually never tried with install.packages under linux. Where does it put > the filesm under /usr/local or standard path? install.packages() will use /usr/local/lib/R/site-library as default, but you can change that with the lib argument. apt-get will put them in /usr/lib/R/site-library. I have a question to add myself though: is it still necessary to add a line like: deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian woody main to /etc/apt/sources.list, as indicated in the CRAN mirrors? This might be redundant, as a lot of packages are already available through the Debian mirrors anyway, but I haven't checked how the list compares with the one in CRAN. Dirk? (Dirk Eddelbuettel is the maintainer of R Debian packages) -- Best wishes, Sebastian ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html