On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Scotti Roberto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > I understand that, to build from source, you need to have all sources (in > the right place and with the right names, and so on), > but your sentence, >> >> To build from source you need to have development files installed. > > stimulates a very basic question: "Is it possible to avoid building from > source using R in Kubuntu?
Personally, my opinion is if you want somebody else to do your work for you, you should have stayed with Windows. Luckily for you, some other people are nice and want to build packages for you. There is a deb archive called "cran2deb" that does build many packages, there's no "guarantee" they will work with all the stuff you have installed. http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/useR2009cran2deb.pdf Here's the reason there's no guarantee. Nobody can anticipate whatever changes you have made to your system--that's the beauty of Linux. So if you build your own, they always fit. But if you stick with default everything, the cran2deb will work. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
