The preceived "difficulty" of installing R under whatever flavour of GNU/Linux in this thread stems from being unfamiliar with the process of the package management of the flavour of GNU/Linux you use (and in part by the various distros not having the most recent version of R in their repositories
People who say "why can't it be as easy as dowloading a self-installing binary and running that" are trying to fit a round peg (their experience and understanding of how applications install in M$-windows) in a square hole (or triangular, hexagonal, or whatever depending on the distribution of GNU/Linux). There are pro's and con's to each of the GNU/Linux flavours and its really a matter of deciding which you like/have invested time in learning. Irrespective its still simple to install R from source under GNU/Linux... 1) Download source tar-ball 2) Extract and cd to the directory 3) ./configure --prefix=/where/you/want/R/to/go (optionally setting the install path at this stage) 4) ./make 5) ./make install ...all documented in the FAQ at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-R-be-installed-_0028Unix_0029 This might not be as clean as using the native package management, but does mean that you'll have the latest version installed. Neil (Addendum - I've tried several different distros, starting with RedHat 7.3, then various versions of Slackware 8 through to 9 before settling on Gentoo, all were easy to install R in). -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/installing-R-on-Ubuntu-tp10025949p21912206.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.
