I'm trying to get RStudio (Desktop) up and running on a Samsung XE303C12 running Ubuntu 14.04. This machine has a duel-core ARM processor inside. This is the process I have followed so far. - Installed R using the Ubuntu Software Centre. - Downloaded RStudio source code in the form of 'rstudio-rstudio-v0.98.952-0-g47edc6d.tar.gz' from rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download and unpacked it. - While installing the common dependencies, I run the following script: #!/bin/bash # # install-pandoc # # Copyright (C) 2009-12 by RStudio, Inc. # # Unless you have received this program directly from RStudio pursuant # to the terms of a commercial license agreement with RStudio, then # this program is licensed to you under the terms of version 3 of the # GNU Affero General Public License. This program is distributed WITHOUT # ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, INCLUDING THOSE OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, # MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to the # AGPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt) for more details. # # set -e # install dir INSTALL_DIR=`pwd` # determine platform PLATFORM=`uname` # use curl or wget as appropriate download() { if [ "$PLATFORM" == "Darwin" ] then curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-buildtools/$1 > $1 else wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-buildtools/$1 -O $1 fi } # get pandoc PANDOC_VERSION=1.12.3 PANDOC_DIR=pandoc/$PANDOC_VERSION if [ -d "$PANDOC_DIR" ] then echo "pandoc ${PANDOC_VERSION} already installed" else PANDOC_NAME=pandoc-${PANDOC_VERSION} PANDOC_ZIP=${PANDOC_NAME}.zip download $PANDOC_ZIP unzip -q $PANDOC_ZIP mkdir -p ${PANDOC_DIR} if [ "$PLATFORM" == "Darwin" ] then cp ${PANDOC_NAME}/mac/pandoc* ${PANDOC_DIR} else # copy binaries for appropriate distro/arch. debian and fedora # use the fully static debian binaries (so we don't run into # problems with libgmp.so.3 being missing on later versions # of fedora. rhel 5 and 6 use the rpm binaries if [[ -x /usr/bin/dpkg ]] || [[ -f /etc/fedora-release ]]; then BINARY_TYPE=debian else BINARY_TYPE=rpm fi ARCH=`uname -m` cp ${PANDOC_NAME}/linux/${BINARY_TYPE}/${ARCH}/pandoc* ${PANDOC_DIR} fi rm $PANDOC_ZIP rm -rf $PANDOC_NAME fi # back to install dir cd $INSTALL_DIR - I get back: 2014-07-11 08:51:07 (72.7 KB/s) - ‘pandoc-1.12.3.zip’ saved [97002741/97002741] cp: cannot stat ‘pandoc-1.12.3/linux/debian/armv7l/pandoc*’: No such file or directory - On inspection I find there is no directory pandoc-1.12.3/linux/debian/arm7l (not surprising) - Went to this site 'http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html' to learn more about installing pandoc. Find out I need to install the Haskell platform. - From this site 'http://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html' learn that I need to install GHC 7.6.3 prior to building the Haskell platform. - Under 'Source Distribution' reads "The source distribution needs an installed GHC (version 7.0 at least). If your platform isn't currently supported with a binary distribution, then you'll need to consult the section on Porting GHC <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting> in the Building Guide." Since this is all pretty new to me, I would like to seek clarification before I decide whether or not to go further down this (rocky) path. Am I required to port GHC across to ARM/Linux in order to install RStudio on my machine? Kind regards, Chris [[alternative HTML version deleted]]