Millo Giovanni
2008-Jun-16 10:45 UTC
[R] R on an ASUS eee PC, continued - installing packages
Dear all,
I just went through the process of installing R on an eeePC 900 running
Linux. As a Windows useR utterly ignorant about Linux, I'd never have
done it without reading your posts and the R Wiki, so first of all:
thank you!
Next, taking up your thread from some weeks ago, I thought this could be
useful for somebody else too, so here's what I did:
1) I followed wolfgang's step-by-step guide at
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/128565.html,
plus
2) I installed the build dependencies as shown in R Wiki:
## quoting from
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation
:debian#build_r ##
How much supporting software you need to install depends on how much
compilation you want to be able to do with R. If you just want to be
able to run R, you can get r-base-core and all the recommended packages
by doing:
sudo apt-get install r-base
If you want to be able to build and install R packages (including those
from CRAN), you can get all the common header files, as well as
r-base-core by doing:
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
If you want to be able to build R from its source code, you can get
build dependencies for R (e.g., compilers, header files) by doing:
sudo apt-get build-dep r-base
## end quote ##
This way I got all the necessary compilers, headers etc. automagically
installed as well, so that install.packages() works fine now: I
installed the whole "Econometrics" task view without problems. I still
haven't tried to install Rmetrics in order to save space on the little
machine, because I do not currently need it, but it should go the same
way: maybe this can solve John's problem?
I am aware that probably removing the original OS and installing Debian
as suggested by Dirk Eddelbuettel here
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/128605.html would be a
better solution, but I am a complete Linux newbie, never ever tried it
before, so it's good both for me and for family use to retain the
original "easy mode" GUI while having R running on the same machine.
Full desktop mode (=standard KDE) is also easily enabled by adding
kicker and ksmserver (see http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde, I did it
"the manual way" and it worked; just take heed that kicker and
ksmserver
were not found in the '900's repository and I had to take them from the
'701's).
The only thing I wish I were able to do now is to have the graphics
windows defaults changed to a size fitting the small 9'' screen, as now
I have to reduce it and move it to the right by hand every time to
reproduce the results of 'windows>tile" in Windows. If anybody can
help...
HTH,
Giovanni
Giovanni Millo
Research Dept.,
Assicurazioni Generali SpA
Via Machiavelli 4,
34131 Trieste (Italy)
tel. +39 040 671184
fax +39 040 671160
# original message:
From: John C Frain <frainj>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:33:31 +0100
Thanks for the step by step guide. It installs a base R and some
libraries very well. I tries to load some of the Rmetrics libraries,
using install.packages() nu ran into problems. I used apt-get install
to install make and gcc from the Xandros repository. gcc also included
binutils, gcc-4.1 and libsspo. Is there an easy answer to the
question what I need to install to get the install process working.
The R Installation and Administration guide says that I just need the
compilers and tools. Installing robustbase gives the following
messages. (If it is as simple as R not being able to find the header
files how do I tell R where to find them?).
Best Regards
John
<output in original message suppressed>
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Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html
mailto:frainj at tcd.ie
mailto:frainj at gmail.com
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Peter Dalgaard
2008-Jun-16 10:56 UTC
[R] R on an ASUS eee PC, continued - installing packages
Millo Giovanni wrote:> > The only thing I wish I were able to do now is to have the graphics > windows defaults changed to a size fitting the small 9'' screen, as now > I have to reduce it and move it to the right by hand every time to > reproduce the results of 'windows>tile" in Windows. If anybody can > help... >That'll be something like X11.options(width=4,height=4,pointsize=8) in your ~/.Rprofile -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
Tom La Bone
2008-Jun-16 11:03 UTC
[R] R on an ASUS eee PC, continued - installing packages
I am running R in the konsole of the Kate editor on an eeePC 900 (standard Xandros OS). When a plot is generated it is initially too large to fit in the screen, but if I click on the plot it automatically resizes to fit properly. I have no idea if this is a default behavior. Tom Millo Giovanni wrote:> > Dear all, > > I just went through the process of installing R on an eeePC 900 running > Linux. As a Windows useR utterly ignorant about Linux, I'd never have > done it without reading your posts and the R Wiki, so first of all: > thank you! > Next, taking up your thread from some weeks ago, I thought this could be > useful for somebody else too, so here's what I did: > > 1) I followed wolfgang's step-by-step guide at > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/128565.html, > plus > 2) I installed the build dependencies as shown in R Wiki: > > ## quoting from > http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation > :debian#build_r ## > How much supporting software you need to install depends on how much > compilation you want to be able to do with R. If you just want to be > able to run R, you can get r-base-core and all the recommended packages > by doing: > > sudo apt-get install r-base > > If you want to be able to build and install R packages (including those > from CRAN), you can get all the common header files, as well as > r-base-core by doing: > > sudo apt-get install r-base-dev > > If you want to be able to build R from its source code, you can get > build dependencies for R (e.g., compilers, header files) by doing: > > sudo apt-get build-dep r-base > ## end quote ## > > This way I got all the necessary compilers, headers etc. automagically > installed as well, so that install.packages() works fine now: I > installed the whole "Econometrics" task view without problems. I still > haven't tried to install Rmetrics in order to save space on the little > machine, because I do not currently need it, but it should go the same > way: maybe this can solve John's problem? > > I am aware that probably removing the original OS and installing Debian > as suggested by Dirk Eddelbuettel here > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/128605.html would be a > better solution, but I am a complete Linux newbie, never ever tried it > before, so it's good both for me and for family use to retain the > original "easy mode" GUI while having R running on the same machine. > Full desktop mode (=standard KDE) is also easily enabled by adding > kicker and ksmserver (see http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde, I did it > "the manual way" and it worked; just take heed that kicker and ksmserver > were not found in the '900's repository and I had to take them from the > '701's). > > The only thing I wish I were able to do now is to have the graphics > windows defaults changed to a size fitting the small 9'' screen, as now > I have to reduce it and move it to the right by hand every time to > reproduce the results of 'windows>tile" in Windows. If anybody can > help... > > HTH, > Giovanni > > Giovanni Millo > Research Dept., > Assicurazioni Generali SpA > Via Machiavelli 4, > 34131 Trieste (Italy) > tel. +39 040 671184 > fax +39 040 671160 > > # original message: > From: John C Frain <frainj> > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:33:31 +0100 > > Thanks for the step by step guide. It installs a base R and some > libraries very well. I tries to load some of the Rmetrics libraries, > using install.packages() nu ran into problems. I used apt-get install > to install make and gcc from the Xandros repository. gcc also included > binutils, gcc-4.1 and libsspo. Is there an easy answer to the > question what I need to install to get the install process working. > The R Installation and Administration guide says that I just need the > compilers and tools. Installing robustbase gives the following > messages. (If it is as simple as R not being able to find the header > files how do I tell R where to find them?). > > > Best Regards > > > John > > <output in original message suppressed> > > -- > John C Frain > Trinity College Dublin > Dublin 2 > Ireland > www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html > mailto:frainj at tcd.ie > mailto:frainj at gmail.com > > Ai sensi del D.Lgs. 196/2003 si precisa che le informazi...{{dropped:13}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >-- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/R-on-an-ASUS-eee-PC%2C-continued---installing-packages-tp17862000p17862223.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.