[R] R + Linux Ubuntu 10.10

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 20 November 2010 at 14:16, Maximilien Renard wrote:
| Thank you for your very quick answers !
| 
| In fact, re-compiling it with readline support did the trick.

Good but you may still want to read

    http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu

as there is no reason to rebuild the package locally.  These 'CRAN-ports'
appear within a few days of releases -- I happen to be the Debian maintainer
responsible for the underlying packaging used here, and I use these very
packages produced by Michael and Vincent on all my Ubuntu machines.

There are a number of little things these packages get right that you may be
missing in local builds: all Depends properly set, enabling of memory
profiling, shared library support (needed for things like rkward, Rapache, RInside,
littler, ...), autocompletion, conffiles linked to /etc/R etc pp.  You are of
course free to build locally -- but I personally would rather not bother and
am happy to let the package management system take care of it.

There is also r-sig-debian for Ubuntu/Debian questions if you have any.

Dirk

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