R help - Oct 2009 - Installing R on Ubuntu ( 8.10 ) ?

installing on Ubuntu, how to do it and have people found it to be glitchy?

which is easier , binary install or from source ?

With the source install, are you less likely to have a dependencies issue ?

( Ubuntu does the GCC install seamlessly, but has no mention of R )

It's not glitchy, and you install it just like any other program. If
you want the latest version you can follow the instructions here:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/. Otherwise "sudo aptitude
install r-base r-base-dev" will do the trick.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Robert Wilkins <robstdev at gmail.com>
wrote:
> installing on Ubuntu, how to do it and have people found it to be glitchy?
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install r-base

No.
>
> which is easier , binary install or from source ?
??? Usually binary is easier (that's kind of the point of
binaries...)
>
> With the source install, are you less likely to have a dependencies issue ?
No, let the apt system handle this for you.
>
> ( Ubuntu does the GCC install seamlessly, but has no mention of R )
??
>
> ______________________________________________
> 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.
>


-- 
Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
http://yourpsyche.org

On 13 October 2009 at 07:46, Robert Wilkins wrote:
| installing on Ubuntu, how to do it and have people found it to be glitchy?
| 
| which is easier , binary install or from source ?
| 
| With the source install, are you less likely to have a dependencies issue ?
| 
| ( Ubuntu does the GCC install seamlessly, but has no mention of R )

Really?  R has been part of every Ubuntu release. 

So install it from part of the distribution, or use the (usually more
current) CRAN repository for Ubuntu at

      http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

where a detailed README tells you how to go about this.

Dirk

-- 
Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.