I installed R in Ubuntu Lucid using the command
sudo aptitude install r-base
When I try to install "install.packages", it seems to download the source code and then compile it. How can I make it just download and install binaries, for example, I'm used to Windows?
Is there a need to compile packages yourself? I am running inside a virtual machine, so it would be great to keep everything as subtle as possible.
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