R's installation from source code is available for all supported platforms, though it is not as easy to perform compared to the binary distribution we've just seen. It is especially hard on Windows, since the installation tools are not part of the system.
Detailed information on installation procedures from source code for Windows, and necessary tools, are available on the CRAN website, at https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html.
On Unix-like systems, the process, on the other hand, is much simpler; the installation must be done following the usual procedure, which uses the following commands:
./configuremakemake install
These commands, assuming that compilers and support libraries are ...
