On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Bhupendrasinh Thakre <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently working in Linux server and wanted to play with our beautiful > R software over there. However as its a company server and have lots of > restrictions so I am thinking to install it in my home directory. I have > three questions in this regard. > > 1. Is it possible. > 2. Is it safe for me and my company data. > 3. How can I do that.
1+3. yes, but it takes some effort I've been in much the same situation for years, and have routinely installed R from source in my home directory. Our systems run locally developed software, so do have compilers, generally from a "build-essential" package, but are missing some 3rd party dev packages needed to compile R and additional libraries. I generally end up installing 3rd party libraries from source to fill in the gaps: run configure, check for important missing headers and libraries, install them, and repeat until configure finds everything you need. 2. "safety" is much too involved to provide a serious answer here, but it is worth noting that some organizations that take security seriously have policies that require building everything they use from source. > Please help me to solve this questions and thanking you in advance for the > helpful comments and guidance. > > Best Regards, > > Bhupendrasinh Thakre > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
