On 29 October 2006 at 10:10, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > I think you may be unaware that it installs and runs fine on a
fully-featured
| > Linux distribution. On Debian or Ubuntu, all you need to do is to install
| > the sun-java5-jdk (and to click once through the Java license thingie) as
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That should answer question 1 below.
| > well as a recent R such as r-base-core_2.4.1. After which all you need to
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sorry - bad typo. That should have r-base-core_2.4.0.
| 1. What's the minimum Java required? Does it need the JDK or will the
| JRE suffice?
JDK.
| 2. Will it work with R-2.4.0, or do I need to have something more recent?
2.4.0 is fine.
| I can certainly test this all out and get it working on Gentoo. I have
| both 1.4 and 1.5 JDK, but I'm using the "stock" R-2.4.0 and don't plan
| to go beyond that until the next version gets into alpha testing.
I think 1.4 is fine but I am not sure. 1.5 works for me, and is pre-packaged
by Sun and Ubuntu/Debian.
Dirk
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