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. 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
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3 messages · Bhupendrasinh Thakre, George N. White III
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Bhupendrasinh Thakre
<vickythakre at gmail.com> 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
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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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" <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Bhupendrasinh Thakre <vickythakre at gmail.com> 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
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-- George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia