Script to load latest R onto a fresh Debian Machine

Question

I\'m working on Amazon\'s Elastic Map Reduce service and I want to bootstrap the latest version of R on to every node. Each node is a pretty basic install of Debian Lenny. I\'ve

Answer 1

Looks good me!

Two minor hints are

• A newfangled way of adding repos without altering /etc/apt/sources.list is to drop a file, say. cran.list with the repo information into the subdirectory /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.

• You may not need the deb-src line unless you plan to rebuild the packages on those nodes.