On 22 March 2011 at 02:17, nick@R wrote: | Hi, | | Have installed Ubuntu packages for R by adding: | deb http:///bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/ | to my /etc/apt/sources.list file and using: | sudo apt-get update | sudo apt-get install r-base | | I understand that to enable shlib I need to download source files to my home | directory. When I run | apt-get source r-base | I get the message: | You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list | | Fair enough! Does anyone out there know how I can do this (what are the | URI's)? Dont they come with the instalation? | | I think then that, once I have the source, I just run: | apt-get source r-base | again and then: | ./configure ./configure --enable-R-shlib | (I already have X11 installed) | | Sound correct?
No -- the Ubuntu version _is_ configured with_ shlib enabled, you do not need to rebuild at all. (And it has additional packages rpy and rpy2, neither one would work otherwise.) If you still want to, building R from source is explained in the R Inst + Admin manual. Dealing with source URLs etc is documented in the Debian + Ubuntu docs. Also consider the r-sig-debian list for Debian/Ubuntu questions for R. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ 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.
