On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Poizot Emmanuel wrote:
>> R under linux (Ubuntu or other distributions) is not exactly as it is
>> under windows.
>> Under linux, you have to use a shell (or a terminal) to launch R and use
>> it.
>> The main difference between windows and linux version of R, is that R
>> under linux, does not provide the graphical facilities to load and
>> install libraries. To do so under linux, you have to download the tar.gz
> ^^^^^^^^^ -> packages
>
>
>> version of the library from CRAN and use as a root user the command R
> ^^^^^^^ -> package
>
>> CMD INSTALL thelibrarytoinstall.tar.gz. You have to install, of course,
> ^^^^^^^ -> package
>> before, the needed compilers gcc and/or fortran, depend the library you
> package <- ^^^^^^^
>
> Yes, please, it is called a *package*. And you can easily install
> packages from R by typing:
>
> install.packages("thepackagetoinstall")
> ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
>
> Please see ?install.packages.
> ^^^^^^^^
One more quick hint to ex-Windows users: the Rgui menu item runs
install.packages(NULL, dependencies = TRUE)
and that will bring up a graphical menu to select packages even on Linux
(provided tcltk is working).
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