[R] Installing R on Slackware Linux

[Torsten Hothorn]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Murray Jorgensen wrote:

> I mostly use Windows, but I am slowly learning to use Linux on my second
> machine. (It came in handy a couple of weeks ago when I had two files to
> sort, each of length about 2 million. Windows sort died after an hour, but
> the Linux sorts took 2-3 minutes each.)
> 
> Anyway the last time I tried installing R in Linux I found out from a
> helpful computer support person that with my distribution (Slackware) it is
> better to work from the source files than binaries. In fact he was so
> helpful that he did it all for me. This was great, except I didn't learn
> how to do it myself. 
> 
> Now I'd like to upgrade from 0.65.1 to 0.90.* and add some packages, but
> this time I'm all on my own. My linux skills are quite limited, but I have
> some books to help me. Is there anything written down somewhere that help
> someone compile and install R who has never compiled or installed anything
> on Linux before?

Well,

get R-0.90.0.tgz, copy it to /usr/src  and then type (as root)

$> tar -xzvf R-0.90.0.tgz	# untar the archive
$> cd R-0.90.0			# change to the R dir
$> ./configure			# create your Makefiles
$> make 			# if the output of configure is ok compile
$> make install			# and install the bin's

All those things are well documented in the FAQ and README's as in all GNU
projects ... :-)

Torsten




> 
> Regards,
> 
> Murray Jorgensen
> 
> Murray Jorgensen,  Department of Statistics,
> University of Waikato,  Hamilton,  New Zealand.  [maj at waikato.ac.nz]
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