The following are notes for myself.
I like to use the bleeding edge version of R:
svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ r-devel cd r-devel ./tools/rsync-recommended ## use the following to update sources: svn update ## pre-reqs sudo apt-get build-dep r-base #sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran libreadline-dev libx11-dev xorg-dev #sudo apt-get install texlive texinfo ./configure make sudo make install