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 http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories It is slightly out of date, but still is useful.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]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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/ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
