Re: [R] Linux Distribution Choice
Ubuntu is a good choice : ) First, I will recommend you to take a look at: http://ubuntuguide.org/ Specially... http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories It is slightly out of date, but still is useful. Once you are done with that, installing R is quit simple. From a terminal -available from the menus in your panel-, type: $ sudo aptitude install r-base r-base-core r-base-html r-recommended r-doc-pdf And that's it! On the other hand, if you want to install from the source, you may try from a terminal the following: $ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base (A lot of *.deb's here) $ sudo aptitude install checkinstall Once you are done with that, get and unpack the R-source (once again on a terminal): $ wget -c http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.2.1.tar.gz $ tar -xzf R-2.2.1.tar.gz $ cd R-2.2.1 $ ./configure make make check (You may like to see the results of 'make check' to asses that everything went fine) Finally: $ sudo checkinstall (You may enter some info here or leave the defaults) And that's it! Whatever you choose, I strongly recommend to run: $ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base So you can install, and build, additional packages from CRAN. You may cut and paste the terminal commands, just be sure to omit the '$' symbol. Graham Smith wrote: Thanks to everyone on this. Iyt ha sgiven me some useful insights into the different options. I am going to try Ubuntu for the time being and see how I get on. Probably revewing the situatin once I understand a bit more about how Linux works. Graham [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- U.M.A. http://sophie.fata.unam.mx/ __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Linux Distribution Choice
Ulises, Thanks for the helpful post but allow me to add one or two corrections: On 20 February 2006 at 11:40, Ulises M. Alvarez wrote: | Ubuntu is a good choice : ) | | First, I will recommend you to take a look at: | http://ubuntuguide.org/ | | Specially... | http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories | | It is slightly out of date, but still is useful. | | Once you are done with that, installing R is quit simple. From a | terminal -available from the menus in your panel-, type: | | $ sudo aptitude install r-base r-base-core r-base-html r-recommended | r-doc-pdf | | And that's it! The key here is the archive you point to. Ubuntu freezes every six months, so 5.10 does by design not have R 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 which were released after 5.10. See the R FAQ for the address of the Debian stable backport (and our thanks to Chris Steigies for building them); once you add the line to /etc/apt/sources.list you even get current packages so that $ apt-get install r-base can do its work. aptitude, wajig, ... and dozen other frontends then will as well, of course. The r-base meta package should imply all the one you listed above. This ought to work on Ubutu as well as was discussed on r-help last week. It may fail if and when Debian's and Ubuntu's libraries diverge. | On the other hand, if you want to install from the source, you may try | from a terminal the following: | | $ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base | (A lot of *.deb's here) Actually, 'apt-get install r-base-dev' should do the trick and was designed by Doug for just that. | $ sudo aptitude install checkinstall | | Once you are done with that, get and unpack the R-source (once again on | a terminal): | | $ wget -c http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.2.1.tar.gz | $ tar -xzf R-2.2.1.tar.gz | $ cd R-2.2.1 | $ ./configure make make check | (You may like to see the results of 'make check' to asses that | everything went fine) Configuring that way omits a lot of little goodies we have in the Debian package. I'd go with the prebuild ones, or locally rebuild from Debian sources. | Finally: | | $ sudo checkinstall | (You may enter some info here or leave the defaults) | | And that's it! | | Whatever you choose, I strongly recommend to run: | $ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base Again, 'r-base-dev' should cover that. | So you can install, and build, additional packages from CRAN. You may Or just use the 50-some existing ones in Debian and (K)Ubuntu. Do a $ apt-cache rdepends r-base-core to see all the packages depending on r-base-core, which includes all CRAN, Omegahat, ... packages we currently have. Dirk | cut and paste the terminal commands, just be sure to omit the '$' symbol. | | Graham Smith wrote: | Thanks to everyone on this. Iyt ha sgiven me some useful insights into the | | different options. I am going to try Ubuntu for the time being and see how I | get on. Probably revewing the situatin once I understand a bit more about | how Linux works. | | | | | Graham | | [[alternative HTML version deleted]] | | __ | R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help | PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html | | | -- | U.M.A. | http://sophie.fata.unam.mx/ | | __ | R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help | PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Linux Distribution Choice
I thought I'd add my vote for Gentoo, which has been my distro of choice for some time (although Slackware is very good as well, and teaches you a lot about *NIX in general). The main advantage of gentoo is that updating is very easy using the portage system (as pointed out by jon butchar), but unlike other distributions which have packages which are compiled for generic x86 architechtures, you get one that is custom compiled to your architechture and with the options you want compiled in (throught the USE flags). This is the point that Alexandre Santos Aguiar was making. Its a little more complicated to install the say Ubuntu where you just drop the disc in the CD-ROM and point and click you way through, but the documentation is second to none, and is extremly detailed. In addition the forums are really useful as well (although you may want to use Google to search them as the default search engine isn't that brilliant). If you were to go with this option then I would recommend writing your own script for installing packages (again from source). An example of one that I have written can be found at http://slack.ser.man.ac.uk/progs/R/scripts/install.genetics.R This way all the packages are installed from source and custom compiled as well. HTH's Neil -- Religion is the work of the Devil - Anon Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website - http://slack.ser.man.ac.uk/ Blog - http://slack---line.blogspot.com/ Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/ __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
