On 21 February 2017 at 18:45, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: | In Section 'Localization of messages' of R Installation and | Administration (R 3.3.2), it says: | | "R can be built without support for translations, but it is enabled | by default." | | How can this be done? Is this an option to 'configure', which I then | failed to identify, or via some environment variable setting?
To a first approximation: ensure configure fails that sub-tests by not having the corresponding -dev package. More elaborately, turn the corresponding configure variable to 'no'. | My objective is to get an R installation (on Linux) that is as small | as possible. I considered playing that game a couple of years ago and decided that it is more or less a waste of time: as good as 'R the interpreter' is, the real added value (at least to me) comes from the *incredible* power supplied by the *massive* number *perfectly well working add-on* packages from CRAN. Which nixes the idea of a minimal size. R really is /usr/bin/R plus whatever you want from CRAN. So for you, what use in reducing R by 10% if you can't add the 'future' package? Not to mention that many packages may need a compiler, or a beast like BH, or ... Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
