On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:31:35AM +0700, Philippe Glaziou wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, got uploaded the day of the 1.8 release. You may want to > > learn how to point apt at different archives. Debian has 1.8 in > > unstable; CRAN has it in testing (thanks to Doug Bates) and > > even in stable (thanks to Korbinian Strimmer) > > > Please, note also that if your debian box has the compilers and > header files required to compile R from source, then building > your own deb packages should be easy because the developers > included all relevant debian files in the sources. There is
Yes, but you're coming close to confusing two things here. R upstream has a debian/ dir, yes, but it has a time lag that occurs because Doug and I only synchronise every few months between my Debian sources and what is in CVS. For example, a fix I just put into 1.8.0-2 (concerning the Atlas/Blas interaction) may not get into CVS until 1.8.1. > little need to tweak /etc/apt/sources.list to get the latest > vintage of debianized R, nor to wait if you need non-intel > binaries. > > sudo apt-get install fakeroot # if not already installed > tar xvzf R-1.8.0.tgz > cd R-1.8.0 > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot # now is time to have a coffee... > cd .. > sudo dpkg -i r-* # this will install everything > But if you grab the package sources from Debian, rather than CRAN, and preferably from unstable, then your advise is spot-on. Locally building .deb package is very easy, and a good way to customise if that is desired. For the rest, there's always apt-get :) Thanks for pointing that out. Dirk -- Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help