[R] R on solaris 10 on a 64-bit ultra60 sparc

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Christoph Lehmann wrote:

> since I have no experience with solaris and sparc-architecture. We installed 
> the latest Solaris 10 on a 64-bit ultra60 sparc machine. Since the solaris 10 
> is said to run native linux-applications: can I just download any r-binaries 
> for linux? if yes, for which distribution?

You would need sparc-linux binaries, and there are none available.

> or are there any solaris 10 binaries? or do I need to compile R myself on the 
> sparc?

You need to compile it yourself.  That is easy if you have a compiler, 
which Solaris does not by default.  Look in the R-admin manual for hints, 
and then ask whoever locally does have such experience to install what you 
need.

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