[R] installing R on Ubuntu, can ignore warning messages?

2009-10-14 Thread robstdev
Installing R on Ubuntu 8.10, ( using sudo apt-get install r-base , and using one of the cran sites (cran.cnr.berkeley.edu)) the installation process says something about not having some gpg public key and are you sure you want to download non-authenticated stuff [y/n] (to which I answered yes).

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu, can ignore warning messages?

2009-10-14 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi, Instructions for authenticating the cran repositories are here: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ r-base comes with whatever the base R libraries are (stats, graphics etc.). I don't know if MASS in particular is in base because I don't use it directly. As far as I know it's safe to

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu, can ignore warning messages?

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Wilkins
It does, thank you. I was able to understand enough of it to do the install successfully . Still trying to understand the later paragraphs such as install.package() and the r-cran-foo build dependencies. (the site you pointed me to is the same site i did a printout of yesterday to try to do an

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu, can ignore warning messages?

2009-10-14 Thread Ista Zahn
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Robert Wilkins robst...@gmail.com wrote: It does, thank you. I was able to understand enough of it to do the install successfully . Still trying to understand the later paragraphs such as install.package() and the r-cran-foo build dependencies. (the site you

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu, can ignore warning messages?

2009-10-14 Thread Ista Zahn
I should have also mentioned that you can search for r-cran in the synaptic package manage if you're more comfortable with that than the command line. This will also show you which packages are installed/available. -Ista On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Ista Zahn istaz...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu, can ignore warning messages?

2009-10-14 Thread David Winsemius
On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Robert Wilkins wrote: It does, thank you. I was able to understand enough of it to do the install successfully . Still trying to understand the later paragraphs such as install.package() and the r-cran-foo build dependencies. (the site you pointed me to is the