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authorAndrew Payne <phalange@komputermatrix.com>2019-03-13 23:12:36 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2019-03-16 06:53:24 +0700
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academic/R: Updated for version 3.5.2 + new maintainer.
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation,
-calculation and graphical display. Among other things it has
+calculation and graphical display. It includes
* an effective data handling and storage facility,
* a suite of operators for calculations on arrays, in particular
- matrices,
+matrices,
* a large, coherent, integrated collection of intermediate tools for
- data analysis,
+data analysis,
-* graphical facilities for data analysis and display either directly
- at the computer or on hardcopy, and
+* graphical facilities for data analysis and display either on-screen
+or on hardcopy, and
-* a well developed, simple and effective programming language (called
- `S') which includes conditionals, loops, user defined recursive
- functions and input and output facilities. (Indeed most of the
- system supplied functions are themselves written in the S language.)
+* a well-developed, simple and effective programming language which
+includes conditionals, loops, user-defined recursive functions and
+input and output facilities.
+
+Notes:
If you do not need to build the R shared library (which is needed if
you would like to call R functions from other applications), execute
@@ -24,3 +25,6 @@ the script as R_SHLIB=no ./R.SlackBuild
If you do not need to build the BLAS shared library (which is useful
for swapping default unaccelerated BLAS for an accelerated one),
execute the script as BLAS_SHLIB=no ./R.SlackBuild
+
+This package builds R from source; example build time (Intel Core
+i7-7500U) is < 30 minutes.