Hi George, Thank you very much for the information. I will try to do more research on the "installation" part from source.
Best Regards, Bhupendrasinh Thakre Sent from my iPhone On Oct 9, 2012, at 7:57 PM, "George N. White III" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
