Dear List, After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too much, I installed Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if migrating from WinXP. Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? Thank you for your time, Tom Volscho ************************************ Thomas W. Volscho Graduate Student Dept. of Sociology U-2068 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269 Phone: (860) 486-3882 http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv00001
I'm guessing this is a Linux based system. Does ./configure make make install work? -roger Thomas W Volscho wrote:> Dear List, > After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too much, I installed Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if migrating from WinXP. > > Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? > > Thank you for your time, > Tom Volscho > > ************************************ > Thomas W. Volscho > Graduate Student > Dept. of Sociology U-2068 > University of Connecticut > Storrs, CT 06269 > Phone: (860) 486-3882 > http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv00001 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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 >-- Roger D. Peng http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:15 -0500, Thomas W Volscho wrote:> Dear List, > After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too much, I installed Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if migrating from WinXP. > > Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? > > Thank you for your time, > Tom VolschoIf it is Debian based, it seems that you should be able to use apt-get to install base R and many of the CRAN packages that Dirk has packaged up. Alternatively, you can download the source tarball and compile using the typical: ./configure make make install (as root) I would of course defer to Dirk and other Debian experts here. You might also want to look at Dirk's Quantian distribution, which is based upon Knoppix and includes R: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html HTH, Marc Schwartz
Thomas W Volscho wrote:> Dear List, > After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too much, I installed Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if migrating from WinXP. > > Does anyone know how to install R on this OS?No, but I'd try to install like on Debian, either using apt-get, or compile from sources yourself as described in the documentation (please read it!). Uwe Ligges> Thank you for your time, > Tom Volscho > > ************************************ > Thomas W. Volscho > Graduate Student > Dept. of Sociology U-2068 > University of Connecticut > Storrs, CT 06269 > Phone: (860) 486-3882 > http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv00001 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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
If I have to guess, `desktop Linux' such as Xandros do not come with compilers and other development tools, so compiling from source will be a bit of a challenge. I recall having played with Corel Linux during its rather short lifetime (also Debian based), and was horrified to find it lacking GCC. Apparently people who make up such distros have the same view as Mr. Gates that compilers need not be part of a desktop OS. (If I'm not mistaken, Unbuntu has the same problem. However, apt-get is _really_ easy...) Cheers, Andy> From: Marc Schwartz > > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:15 -0500, Thomas W Volscho wrote: > > Dear List, > > After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too > much, I installed Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty > easy to use if migrating from WinXP. > > > > Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? > > > > Thank you for your time, > > Tom Volscho > > If it is Debian based, it seems that you should be able to use apt-get > to install base R and many of the CRAN packages that Dirk has packaged > up. > > Alternatively, you can download the source tarball and > compile using the > typical: > > ./configure > make > make install (as root) > > I would of course defer to Dirk and other Debian experts here. > > You might also want to look at Dirk's Quantian distribution, which is > based upon Knoppix and includes R: >http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help at 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
[1] go to http://packages.debian.org/testing/math/ and download the essential r-base packages to your hard drive [2] install downloaded files using xandros networks File --> Install DEB file ... [3] once it's working install remaining packages from within R using install.packages(pkgs, lib, CRAN = getOption("CRAN"), contriburl = contrib.url(CRAN), method, available = NULL, destdir = NULL, installWithVers = FALSE, dependencies = FALSE) you'll need to read the help file on this ... but you'll have to specify ---- Quoting Thomas W Volscho <THOMAS.VOLSCHO at huskymail.uconn.edu>:> Dear List, > After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too much, I installed > Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if migrating from > WinXP. > > Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? > > Thank you for your time, > Tom Volscho > > ************************************ > Thomas W. Volscho > Graduate Student > Dept. of Sociology U-2068 > University of Connecticut > Storrs, CT 06269 > Phone: (860) 486-3882 > http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv00001 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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 >
Hi Tom, [1] go to http://packages.debian.org/testing/math/ and download r-base and other essential packages to your computer [2] install packages using Xandros Networks; from the pull-down menu select File-->Install DEB file... [3] once you have a functional R 2.0.1 working install the rest of the packages you want directly from within R using install.packages (see help for this); this is best since all the dependencies are sorted out automatically HTH. - Mohamed --------------------------------------- Quoting Thomas W Volscho <THOMAS.VOLSCHO at huskymail.uconn.edu>:> Dear List, > After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too much, I installed > Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if migrating from > WinXP. > > Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? > > Thank you for your time, > Tom Volscho > > ************************************ > Thomas W. Volscho > Graduate Student > Dept. of Sociology U-2068 > University of Connecticut > Storrs, CT 06269 > Phone: (860) 486-3882 > http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv00001 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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 >
I think Dirk's recommendation is better. If the system lacks tools to compile R from source, install.packages() will not work for many packages, as that compile packages from source. Andy ps: Thanks to those who pointed out about availability of dev tools in Xandros & Unbuntu. I still can't get comfortable with a *nix system that doesn't have compilers installed by default...> From: Mohamed Abdolell > > Hi Tom, > > [1] go to http://packages.debian.org/testing/math/ and > download r-base and other > essential packages to your computer > [2] install packages using Xandros Networks; from the > pull-down menu select > File-->Install DEB file... > [3] once you have a functional R 2.0.1 working install the > rest of the packages > you want directly from within R using install.packages (see > help for this); this > is best since all the dependencies are sorted out automatically > > HTH. > > - Mohamed > > > --------------------------------------- > > > Quoting Thomas W Volscho <THOMAS.VOLSCHO at huskymail.uconn.edu>: > > > Dear List, > > After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too > much, I installed > > Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if > migrating from > > WinXP. > > > > Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? > > > > Thank you for your time, > > Tom Volscho > > > > ************************************ > > Thomas W. Volscho > > Graduate Student > > Dept. of Sociology U-2068 > > University of Connecticut > > Storrs, CT 06269 > > Phone: (860) 486-3882 > > http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv00001 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help at 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 > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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 > >
Hi Mohamed,> I certainly deffer to both you and Dirk on this ... my > suggestions were only > ment to get an installation of R up and running on Xandros.If you are using Xandros, then your information is better than my speculation. If you were able to use install.packages(), you must have the devel tools installed.> Perhaps, either you or Dirk could comment on the following > for me ... when I > tried the installation on Xandros using the method I > indicated, everything > seemed to install. But, when I tried running some R code I'd > written and > run on WinXP it actually ran slower than on either WinXP or > on Quantian ... > would this have something to do with the way I installed R?Is the difference observed on the same machine? If so, that sound very peculiar, as the R installation on Quantian should be the same as the .deb file you install from on Xandros... If you can, please show us example code and timings. Andy