On 11 November 2008 at 10:22, Wilson, Andrew wrote: | It looks as if installing R under Ubuntu 8.10 is going to be much more | complicated than I thought it was going to be. | | I hadn't realized that it would depend on installing so many other | packages (about 23, it seems), many of which also have their own | dependencies.
Well, yes. R is a large system with many features. Just doing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ r -e'print(capabilities())' jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua http/ftp sockets TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE libxml fifo cledit iconv NLS profmem cairo TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ implies the need for jpeg, pmg, tcl/tk, x11, xml, cairo, ... This is the packaged R. If you want a smaller one, you can try to configure and build it differently (castrating away features) ... but building R requires even more packages than running it. | So I wondered whether all of these are really essential, and whether | there is a single package anywhere that includes them all for a one-off | download? (As I mentioned before, my home computer is not an | internet-connected machine, and I download files for installation to my | pen drive at work.) As I recall, there are tools for apt that help with this. From memory, this is called apt-zip. | I'm also wondering whether it might be easier simply to copy across my | Windows version of R and run it with WINE. Has anyone tried this? Does | it work? Or install VMware or Virtualbox at work on Windows, run Ubuntu inside, install R ... and copy the packages you need from /var/cache/apt/archives/ to your usb drive. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian