Thanks, Dirk and Christopher, for helpful comments about Debian. I'll perhaps follow up some of the major points later, but meanwhile a couple of minor comments:
On 02-Nov-07 03:14:34, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >| I've been to the CRAN section which deals with precompiled >| Debian binaries: >| >| http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/debian/ >| >| When I follow the advice: >| >| "Simply add something like >| >| deb http://<favorite-cran-mirror>/bin/linux/debian stable/ > > Works for me. You did replace <favorite-cran-mirror> with something > like cran.uk.r-project.org, right? Oh yes I did! >| to the file /etc/apt/sources.list on your computer and >| install as usual." >| [...] >| [BTW, I'm trying these out as guests in virtual machines, >| using virtualbox, which seems to me to run very well] > > [ I heard there were some NAT/networking issues to go 'both ways' > towards the hosted systems? ] As I recall, I did encounter something of the sort, but worked round it by choosing a bridged connection (i.e. choose "Host Adaptor" rather than "NAT" in the Network dialogue box when setting up the VM). Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 02-Nov-07 Time: 12:08:42 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.