I recently had to re-install R on Debian Lenny. I couldn't install the latest version through apt-get. So i had to compile it manually from the .tar . This link is very useful:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html Hope this helps, David Biau. ________________________________ De : "r-sig-debian-requ...@r-project.org" <r-sig-debian-requ...@r-project.org> À : r-sig-debian@r-project.org Envoyé le : Mer 14 avril 2010, 6 h 00 min 09 s Objet : R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 56, Issue 5 Send R-SIG-Debian mailing list submissions to r-sig-debian@r-project.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to r-sig-debian-requ...@r-project.org You can reach the person managing the list at r-sig-debian-ow...@r-project.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of R-SIG-Debian digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: R installation for Ubuntu (Karmic) (Douglas Bates) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:56:50 -0500 From: Douglas Bates <ba...@stat.wisc.edu> To: m...@vector-group.com Cc: r-sig-debian <r-sig-debian@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] R installation for Ubuntu (Karmic) Message-ID: <j2i40e66e0b1004131456n9697bd6cybfc45e2d8c70b...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Mark Johnson <m...@vector-group.com> wrote: > Mr. Bates, > > I'm a relatively new Ubuntu user trying to understand how to download and > install R (I've already loaded the Vista version) > > I noted your name in the distribution files for R for Ubuntu. ?Since you're > listed as an uploader, I am hoping you can answer my questions or direct me > to the correct person. At one time Dirk Eddelbuettel and I were listed as co-maintainers of the R packages for Debian (and hence for Ubuntu) but Dirk was doing all the work so I asked that he get all the credit. > Is there an instruction file for the Ubuntu neophyte? ?Something that > describes which files comprise the download and instructions for > installation? You can use the packages in the Ubuntu distribution but they are generally out-of-date. We have an unfortunate habit of releasing new versions of R just after the next version of Ubuntu is frozen. But not to worry - there are instructions on any CRAN archive, e.g. http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu on how to install R and associated packages on Ubuntu from the CRAN archive which has the latest releases. There is also an active Special Interest Group (SIG) mailing list for R on Debian or Ubuntu, which I have taken the liberty of cc:'ing on this reply. In the future I would recommend sending such questions to that list rather than to me. You are more likely to get a faster response from the list. > I used SPlus for a long time till my old version no longer ran on the > current version of windows. ?I was glad to see R is out here, and have > downloaded it for Vista and it works fine, though it will take me some > practice before I will be comfortable with it. > > Recently I replaced the motherboard and updated components on an old PC and > installed UBUNTU on that. ?I was trying to download and install R for > Ubuntu, but where I got one download and install file for Vista, there are a > LOT of different files for Ubuntu, and I don't know how to proceed. > > From a historical perspective, I used a predecessor tool known at AT&T Bell > Labs as "Statlib" (just like the statistical repository). ?I'm unsure of the > historical development path, but believe Statlib was a precursor of R and S, > but was based on an unmaintainable codebase of hundreds of thousands of > lines of undocumented Fortran spaghetti code which led to the development of > R and S, and eventually to SPlus. > > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark Johnson > Principal > Vector Group Services > PH: ?972-370-1515 > CELL: ?214-606-0553 > EMAIL: ?m...@vector-group.com > TWITTER: ?VGPricing > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > "Logic will get you from A to B. > Imagination will take you everywhere." > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Albert Einstein > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian End of R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 56, Issue 5 ******************************************* [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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