[R] Installing R in Ubuntu

[Shreyasee Pradhan]

Hi,

I am running Ubuntu on my Windows OS through VMware.
I am trying to install R in Ubuntu, but not getting with those commands,
which are there on the site.
Can anyone please tell me how to install it, stepwise, with commands to be
used.
As I m new to Ubuntu as well, I am not aware of the commands very well.

Thanks,
Shreyasee

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[Senthil Kumar M]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Shreyasee Pradhan
<shreyase...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Ubuntu on my Windows OS through VMware.
> I am trying to install R in Ubuntu, but not getting with those commands,
> which are there on the site.
> Can anyone please tell me how to install it, stepwise, with commands to be
> used.
> As I m new to Ubuntu as well, I am not aware of the commands very well.

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Hi,

What commands did you try ? What worked and what didn't ? Which site
did you refer ?

Please read the posting guidelines here:
http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html

In the Ubuntu command line, try:

sudo aptitude install r-base

And for a list of R packages that you can install from the Ubuntu repositories:

aptitude search r- | grep [^A-Za-z0-9] r-

Install them like this:

sudo aptitude install r-cran-package-name

HTH,

Senthil

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[Shreyasee Pradhan]

Hi,

Thanks for that.

the way I tried is as follows:
1) Downloaded the r-base package
2) went in that directory where the r-base package was downloaded from
command line
3) entered the command
sudo apt-get install r-base
But got the error, that Couldn't find r-base command.

I don't understand where I went I wrong.
I will definitely try the following commands.

Thanks,
Shreyasee

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[poppyer]

"Shreyasee Pradhan" <shreyase...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> the way I tried is as follows:
> 1) Downloaded the r-base package
> 2) went in that directory where the r-base package was downloaded from
> command line
> 3) entered the command
> sudo apt-get install r-base
> But got the error, that Couldn't find r-base command.
>
> I don't understand where I went I wrong.
> I will definitely try the following commands.

I think you probably has no "universe" repository in your
/etc/apt/source.list. all R related stuffs are in "universe"

Try to google something like source.lst generator, if you are new to
apt&source.lst

Cheers

poppyer

[Paul Hiemstra]

Hi,

If you download a package to your harddrive for installation you need to
use the dpkg command like:

1) Download pacakge (foo.deb)
2) Go to the directory
3) dpkg -i foo.deb

But I would advise against this because it is better to use repositories
so R get updated automatically. The standard ubuntu repositories have
old versions of R, see http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ for a
description of how to add the CRAN repositories for the latest version
of R. You can also install a lot of R packages from this repository,
doing this also ensures that they are automatically updated.

cheers and hth,

Paul

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