[Rcpp-devel] installing Rcpp and working a compilation with C++

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 31 October 2018 at 08:58, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| In short: don't do that. *Every* Ubuntu release will have R (package r-base,
| pulling in r-base-core and a few others) and Rcpp (package r-cran-rcpp).

PS Unless of course you know what you are doing. The README at
  https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
is still good.

And you don't have to use a VM to do Rcpp. It works quite well on Windows too.

Dirk

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