Hi Andy, I certainly deffer to both you and Dirk on this ... my suggestions were only ment to get an installation of R up and running on Xandros. I'm by no means an expert, as you can see by my missuse of the term 'dependencies'. I'd had trouble using apt-get so I fiddled with Xandros Networks until I got something that worked.
Perhaps, either you or Dirk could comment on the following for me ... when I tried the installation on Xandros using the method I indicated, everything seemed to install. But, when I tried running some R code I'd written and run on WinXP it actually ran slower than on either WinXP or on Quantian ... would this have something to do with the way I installed R? Thanks. - Mohamed -----Original Message----- From: Liaw, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 January 2005 08:20 To: 'Mohamed Abdolell'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thomas W Volscho Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: RE: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0 I think Dirk's recommendation is better. If the system lacks tools to compile R from source, install.packages() will not work for many packages, as that compile packages from source. Andy ps: Thanks to those who pointed out about availability of dev tools in Xandros & Unbuntu. I still can't get comfortable with a *nix system that doesn't have compilers installed by default... > From: Mohamed Abdolell > > Hi Tom, > > [1] go to http://packages.debian.org/testing/math/ and > download r-base and other > essential packages to your computer > [2] install packages using Xandros Networks; from the > pull-down menu select > File-->Install DEB file... > [3] once you have a functional R 2.0.1 working install the > rest of the packages > you want directly from within R using install.packages (see > help for this); this > is best since all the dependencies are sorted out automatically > > HTH. > > - Mohamed > > > --------------------------------------- > > > Quoting Thomas W Volscho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Dear List, > > After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too > much, I installed > > Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if > migrating from > > WinXP. > > > > Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? > > > > Thank you for your time, > > Tom Volscho > > > > ************************************ > > Thomas W. Volscho > > Graduate Student > > Dept. of Sociology U-2068 > > University of Connecticut > > Storrs, CT 06269 > > Phone: (860) 486-3882 > > http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv00001 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html