R SIG Debian - Jul 2008 - R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

R won't appear under the applications.  Go to the terminal (in the
accessories menu) and type R.  It will run in command line.
You might also want to install r-base-dev if you want to compile libraries.  



Corey S. Sparks, Ph.D.

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University of Texas San Antonio
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   1. problems installing R on Ubuntu (Zoltan Antliff)


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I followed the instructions to update sources.list, and then executed:

 sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install r-base

The latter line seemed to run without any errors but I can't start
R. It does not appear under Applications. I admit to being newbie
as far as Linux is concerned.

Zoltan

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On 6 July 2008 at 10:38, COREY SPARKS wrote:
| R won't appear under the applications.  Go to the terminal (in the
accessories menu) and type R.  It will run in command line.
| You might also want to install r-base-dev if you want to compile libraries.  

For the record, under Kubuntu, I see it via the 
    Debian -> Applications -> Science -> Data Analysis -> GNU R
menu path which makes sense given this menu file in the package:

?package(r-base-core):	\
	needs="text"	\
	section="Applications/Science/Data Analysis"	\
	title="GNU R"	\
	command="/usr/bin/R"

Why Gnome doesn't show this I do not know but I'd be happy to fix that
in the
package. If somebody knows how to setup proper menu files, let me know.

Dirk

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