[R] Problems compiling (configure) R on Ubuntu linux (debian)

Ales Ziberna ales.ziberna at guest.arnes.si
Sun Feb 6 10:49:51 CET 2005


Thanks to everybody for their valuble suggestions.

Unfortunaty I currently can not use apt-get or similar, since I can not 
connect to the net using Ubuntu (modem problems).

Thanks again to everybody!

Ales Ziberna




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian.org>
To: "Peter Dalgaard" <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>
Cc: "Ales Ziberna" <ales.ziberna at guest.arnes.si>; "R-help" 
<r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Problems compiling (configure) R on Ubuntu linux (debian)


>
> On 5 February 2005 at 14:25, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> | =?windows-1250?Q?Ale=9A_=8Eiberna?= <ales.ziberna at guest.arnes.si> 
> writes:
> | > I am new to Linux and I tried to compile R on my Ubuntu Warty linux. I
>
> There is really no need to do this, especially when you're new to Linux. 
> The
> command
>
>       $ apt-get install r-base
>
> (or is graphical equivalent via aptitude et al) is your friend. You may 
> have
> to add Debian archives to the list of archives search when you do 'apt-get
> update'. I'm sure the Ubunto docs explain how to do that.
>
> Dirk, whose free Ubunto cdrom is still unused for lack of time
>
> -- 
> Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise
> answer to the wrong question.  --  John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers
>
>




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