The following are notes for myself.
I like to use the bleeding edge version of R:
<pre class="example">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
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