Am Montag, den 13.07.2009, 15:21 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: Hello Dirk,
first off all, thanks for your super fast answer. The first posting was in German because I just copied and pasted one entry I posted on a german Ubuntu forum. No answer yet. > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu I know this page. But I just could not manage somehow. 1. I do not which one I have to choose (jaunty/, iintrepidred etc.) 2. I do not know where to add the entry 3. I do not know if and how to activate "backports" repositories. 4. Basically I do not know anything. I do need an super easy instruction (step by step) on how to install R and how to get it running on a graphic interface. I really need to get R running as soon as possible since I have to finish a few papers and therefore I need to acces my workspace which I worked on under Windows. Hopefully that is possible. I do want to reinstall to Vista. > > So far so good. But you do need to either start R from within 'sudo' or > as root. I done that. > That is even weirder. Firstly, on Debian/Ubuntu you normally do not end up > with per-user library directories, but rather a 'global for all users' in > /usr/local/lib/R/site-library. Maybe I can delete R one time an reinstall form the beginning. But I do not how to deinstall R. > Simple locking issue. You may another access in another session, or you have > root access issues. > What does that mean. > As not all CRAN packages are available pre-built for Ubuntu, you do > unfortunately need to know a bit of Linux / Unix to move along, esp with > packages like JGR. > I will work on it. But first of all I need to get it running. Best wishes, Gunnar _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian