[R] Compiling R without X?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sat, 6 May 2000, Ragnar Beer wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> I just installed SuSE PPC beta on my laptop but R won't compile 
> because of a missing X object file. Everything went well under 
> LinuxPPC but it's a pain in the butt not to have a german keyboard 
> supported. So I decided to stick with the SuSE beta until they roll 
> out their final version. Until then it would be nice to have R 
> available without graphics or X, respectively. Can somebody tell me 
> how to configure/make it?

Get the R-devel snapshot from CRAN and use that. AFAIK it is the only
version in which

configure --without-x
make

works.

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