On 8 February 2009 at 20:36, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: | Dear me. Is the installation of R under Ubuntu really that complex? I | have a dual boot machine (Linux / Windows, where I use the latter the | most) and have plans to try R under Linux, but have not done so yet. Is | it possible to simplify the Linux install procedure to make R more | accessible to novices?
Yes. 'sudo apt-get install r-base ess ggobi' and you have working R, ESS and Ggobi. Start Emacs, type 'M-x R' and you have an R session inside Emacs. Is that really easier to accomplish in Windows? Dirk | | Compare that to Windows. (1) Download installation program (2) Run | installation program. That is it. | | Tom | | Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: | > I've read some of R's literature on Linux, including the R Admin manual, and | > didn't find it very useful, which is probably my own limitation. But I did | > finally manage to get it working well. I'm posting this to help others. | > The following worked when installing R 2.8.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. | > Here are truly step-by-step instructions for those who don't know Linux | > (like me): | > | > Installation and Initial Set-Up of R for Ubuntu Linux | > | > 1. Open the Bash terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) | > 2. Type these lines to add the security key to access the latest version of | > the R Ubuntu package: | > u...@computer:~$ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E2A11821 | > u...@computer:~$ gpg -a --export E2A11821 | sudo apt-key add - | > 3. Use the Bash terminal to open your sources.list file with gedit (text | > editor) for editing: | > u...@computer:~$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list | > 4. Add this line to the bottom of the sources.list file: | > deb http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/ | > 5. Save the file and go back to the Bash terminal. | > 6. Type this to update apt-get's database before you install R: | > u...@computer:~$ sudo apt-get update | > 7. Install R with this command: | > u...@computer:~$ sudo apt-get install r-base | > 8. Go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager, and download | > the build-essential package. | > 9. To use R, simply enter R in the Bash terminal. To quit, enter q(). | > | > | > Additional programs will be needed to install other packages or work with | > other programs: | > 1. Install compilers for C++ and Fortran | > u...@computer:~$ sudo apt-get install g++ gfortran | > 2. Install the developer versions of Blas and Lapack (what are these?) | > u...@computer:~$ apt-get install libblas-dev liblapack-dev | > | > | > Updating Packages in R | > 1. Open the Bash terminal and start R with root permissions | > u...@computer:~$ sudo R | > 2. Type > update.packages() | > | > | > Installing the R Commander GUI | > 1. Open the Bash terminal and type: | > u...@computer:~$ apt-get install r-cran-rcmdr | > | > | > Using the R Commander GUI | > library(Rcmdr) | > ...or once the library is open and Commander has been shut down, type: | > commander() | > | > | > Notes | > It looks like most of R has been put here: | > /etc/R (Rprofile.site is here) | > /usr/lib/R | > | > | > Downloaded Packages seem to go here: | > /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ | | | -- | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | Tom Backer Johnsen, Psychometrics Unit, Faculty of Psychology | | | University of Bergen, Christies gt. 12, N-5015 Bergen, NORWAY | | | Tel : +47-5558-9185 Fax : +47-5558-9879 | | | Email : bac...@psych.uib.no URL : http://www.galton.uib.no/ | | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | ______________________________________________ | R-help@r-project.org mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help | PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html | and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.