On 18 April 2021 at 17:33, Michael Rutter wrote: | On 4/18/21 5:17 PM, James Daly wrote: | > In R, I am having trouble downloading some packages (apaTables, apaStyle, | > OpenMx, MBESS, gsl). This post
Some of those are not simple but complex. The devil, as always, is in the detail. | > <https://blog.zenggyu.com/en/post/2018-01-29/installing-r-r-packages-e-g-tidyverse-and-rstudio-on-ubuntu-linux/> | > makes me think that the problem is that they reference non-R packages. | > However, I don't know what to do about it. Can anybody help me? | > | > Any advice for a new Linux user would be appreciated, too! I am considering | > hopping to another distro, possibly Debian, once I get the hang of it. | > | > Thanks, | > Jimmy | | Jimmy, | | I would highly recommend reading the web page about Ubuntu on CRAN, | especially the section about using the c2d4u 4.0 repository. | | https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/#get-5000-cran-packages | | I would then install the bspm package (Bridge to System Package Manager) | with (from the Ubuntu command line): | | sudo apt install r-cran-bspm | | This will utilize apt from within R whenever possible. Strongly seconded. I wrote a number of blog posts in the topic which you can find (in reverse chronological order) below this URL: https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/code/r4/ You can skip a few but there are probably at least half a dozen posts on the very topic of _more easily_ installing CRAN binaries on Ubuntu. Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
