Query about building R-2.3.1 for Ubuntu

On 9 June 2006 at 08:17, Adrian DUSA wrote:
| Hello Arin,
|
| I doubt anyone has built a deb package for the latest release.

Wrong. See e.g. one of
	http://changelogs.debian.net/r-base
	http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/r-base.html

As all previous releases R 2.3.1 was in Debian within a day, in this case
within hours, of its release.

| What I do is to
| compile R from sources. It takes about 15 minutes or so, but it's worth
| it: you'll have a perfect installation for your box.
| I use this command (having previously installed tcl and tk and their
| corresponding dev packages):
|
| ./configure --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tcl8.4/tclConfig.sh
| --with-tk-config=usr/lib/tk8.4/tkConfig.sh
| make
| sudo make install

And you miss several customizations and enhancements the package has.

Regards, Dirk

| HTH,
| Adrian
|
| On Thursday 08 June 2006 11:04, arin basu wrote:
| > Hi All:
| >
| > Is a distribution of R version 2.3.1 (the current version) available
| > for the Ubuntu Linux? If I want to build a .deb package for R-2.3.1 for
| > Ubuntu, are there specific requirements that I should be aware of? Is a
| > tutorial available? I searched the web, and the repositories, but oculd
| > not locate an appropriate file.
| >
| > TIA,
| > Arin Basu
|
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