[R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

[Ulises M. Alvarez]

Just for the sake of clarity:

Ubuntu does include developer tools ('apt-get install build-essential').

Liaw, Andy wrote:
> If I have to guess, `desktop Linux' such as Xandros do not come with
> compilers and other development tools, so compiling from source will be a
> bit of a challenge.  I recall having played with Corel Linux during its
> rather short lifetime (also Debian based), and was horrified to find it
> lacking GCC.  Apparently people who make up such distros have the same view
> as Mr. Gates that compilers need not be part of a desktop OS.
> 
> (If I'm not mistaken, Unbuntu has the same problem.  However, apt-get is
> _really_ easy...)
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy 
> 
> 
>>From: Marc Schwartz
>>
>>On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:15 -0500, Thomas W Volscho wrote:
>>
>>>Dear List,
>>>After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too 
>>
>>much, I installed Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty 
>>easy to use if migrating from WinXP.
>>
>>>Does anyone know how to install R on this OS?
>>>
>>>Thank you for your time,
>>>Tom Volscho
>>
>>If it is Debian based, it seems that you should be able to use apt-get
>>to install base R and many of the CRAN packages that Dirk has packaged
>>up.
>>
>>Alternatively, you can download the source tarball and 
>>compile using the
>>typical:
>>
>>./configure
>>make
>>make install (as root)
>>
>>I would of course defer to Dirk and other Debian experts here.
>>
>>You might also want to look at Dirk's Quantian distribution, which is
>>based upon Knoppix and includes R:
>>
> 
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
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