[Rcpp-devel] Updating R and RInside

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 October 2014 at 23:39, David Ibarra Gómez wrote:
| Well, at least I know where to address more questions, thank you.
| 
|  I'll maybe submit a question to the debian list you mention. I posted here by
| the rinside installation. I was just looking for the fastest way (the old conf
| its on several "production" machines), to upgrade R and RInside. Because the
| last time was neither fast or easy... I'll keep on trying...

It all depends on what you are comfortable with.  If you all you want is to
install pre-built r-cran-rcpp and r-cran-rinside, then I (with my Debian
maintainer hat on) surely provide those for you.   If you don't change them,
they should work just fine.

On "my" production systems, I do however build Rcpp* et al from source.  

The whole "should I install CRAN packages as r-cran-* binaries, or from
source" nexus is somewhat complicated, but is the wrong question for this
list.  [ And in case you are wondering, I tend to install mostly from source
into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ --- but different strokes for different
folks. ]

Dirk

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