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. 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.) 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? Thanks, Andrew Wilson
Quick thought - maybe you could try ELF statifier to pack all the dependencies into the binary http://www.linux.com/feature/150677 2008/11/11 Wilson, Andrew <eiaaw@exchange.lancs.ac.uk>> 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. > > 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.) > > 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? > > Thanks, > > Andrew Wilson > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian >-- FYI: My email addresses at unimelb, uq and gmail all redirect to the same place. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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
edd at joe:~$ 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
edd at joe:~$
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
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"Wilson, Andrew" <eiaaw at exchange.lancs.ac.uk> writes:> 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.Well, it's complicated under the hood, but all those packages and dependencies will be handled automatically by your package manager. Why does this bother you? Are you really tight for drive space? If not, there's no reason to worry about it. I've never tried running R under Wine, but that does sound complicated. Tyler --
Andrew, I'm running R under 8.10 right now (on a dual-booted macbook) and it's been a great. Apt (the package manager) takes care of the dependencies for you, so the install is really worry-free. Josh Stumpf On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Wilson, Andrew <eiaaw@exchange.lancs.ac.uk>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. > > 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.) > > 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? > > Thanks, > > Andrew Wilson > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian >-- "Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. " --Chuck Palahniuk "Masochism is a valuable job skill. ." --Chuck Palahniuk "It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that my thoughts acquire speed. My hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion..." [[alternative HTML version deleted]]