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 | http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories | | It is slightly out of date, but still is useful.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