[moved from R-help] Kevin Middleton wrote: >>> One oddity about Ubuntu is that there are no CRAN builds for 64bit. >> Volunteers would be welcomed with open arms. >> > > I don't think I know enough to volunteer (but I am open to suggestion > off list), but I had no difficulty installing R from source on a 64 > bit Ubuntu machine (7.10, with, I believe, 1 GB of RAM) following the > instructions in R-admin. I just kept installing necessary libraries > until ./configure completed without errors. Then make, make check, > and make install ran without a hitch. >
I also initially compiled R from a source tarball under Ubuntu by adding Ubuntu packages by trial and error until ./configure completed without errors. After some helpful tips from Dirk Eddelbuettal, I tried the following on a new installation of Ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base r-recommended which installs all the listed dependencies for r-base and r-recommended. That seemed to work well for finding the dependencies necessary to compile R. (And if this is wrong, it's my fault, not Dirk's.) Question: Is this the easiest recommended way to install all the dependencies necessary to build the latest version of R from sources under Ubuntu? Other: possible sources of info: (1) There are instructions in http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ (and links from there) but those seem to be more directed at building R packages than R itself. (2) There are also some notes on the Wiki at http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation:debian#build_r but those suggest installing specific Debian/Ubuntu packages, rather than using the dependencies specified in the package descriptions. (3) There is also a script in the message archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00215.html , but I'm hoping the above single-line can accomplish what's needed to just build R from sources. -- Tony Plate > Kevin > > ------------------------------------------------- > Kevin M. Middleton > Department of Biology > California State University San Bernardino > 5500 University Parkway > San Bernardino CA 92507 > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
