On 26 August 2011 at 08:39, Rolf Turner wrote: | | Carole: | | If you really need to install R from source you probably need to do: | | sudo apt-get update | sudo apt-get install libx11-dev | | before you do your ./configure and make.
Whoever _really_ insists on building locally should use the _knowledge embedded in the packaging system_ and instread say sudo apt-get build-dep r-base which will install everything that gets installed when the actual package is built by the distribution, namely: Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.1.0), g++ (>= 4:4.1.0), gfortran (>= 4:4.1.0), libblas-dev, liblapack-dev (>= 3.1.1), tcl8.5-dev, tk8.5-dev, bison, groff-base, libncurses5-dev, libreadline-dev, debhelper (>= 7.2.3), texi2html, texinfo (>= 4.1-2), libbz2-dev, liblzma-dev, libpcre3-dev, xdg-utils, zlib1g-dev, libpng12-dev, libjpeg-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev, x11proto-core-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libcairo2-dev, libtiff4-dev, xvfb, xauth, xfonts-base, texlive-base, texlive-latex-base, texlive-generic-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-extra-utils, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-extra, texinfo, texi2html, openjdk-6-jdk [!arm !hppa !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386 !mips] Otherwise you are likely to miss some features. | If you just want to install the binary, you could try | | sudo apt-get update | sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev That is indeed a _much, much better idea_ and the generally recommended path. Even the R Installation and Administration suggests to look up what the R FAQ has to say in matter, and it points to | (Well, that seems to work for me! It's kind of a magic incantation from | my pov; don't really know what I'm doing. :-) ) You can always read up :-) Dirk -- Two new Rcpp master classes for R and C++ integration scheduled for New York (Sep 24) and San Francisco (Oct 8), more details are at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2011/08/04#rcpp_classes_2011-09_and_2011-10 http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/products/training/public/rcpp-master-class.php ______________________________________________ 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.