Denis,
On 11 July 2010 at 13:57, denis brion wrote:
[...]
| I do not think the solution B is very risky because :
|
| * R's package building is one of the easiest in the GNU(linux : works under
BSD and sometimes AIX, too) world. When I try a new distribution, the first
thing I try is to build R from sources; if something is misssing, I try to
build it, too ; after it, more complicated softwares can be tried (octave,
scilab).
|
| * If it is intended for students, may be they will be happy to know how to
install from sources (having a Debian on their linux (if any) computers is not
compulsory, is not it? )
|
| * knowing how to make a package and how to document it may be interesting (I
wrote professional packages for R{my boss wont GPL them!} , and writing
documentation is very easy).
|
| * There are about 1500 functions in R (without libraries); knowing 2 more
functions | bash lines is not that tremendous; getting an idea of dependencies
and how they are managed is useful if one wants to install/use any GNU (and
even Windows...) software .
|
| * Most linux distribution (not weighted by audience, I agree) do not have R
supplied, nor its dependencies.... Others (I think of Centos and Mandriva)
might have late versions of R, and one depends on the distribution's skills and
avalaible time... instead of writing 2 bash lines/calling one R function!!!
May I ask to stop posting irrelevant stuff: this is r-sig-debian.
Hence it is not the place for conjectures about what may or or may not work
sometimes or not on unnamed other Linux distributions, or other / older Unix
variants.
Concrete, on-topic help with relevant details for Debian or Ubuntu will
always be appreciated. But it may be preferable to do everything else
off-list.
Thank you.
--
Regards, Dirk
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