[R] Installing R in Ubuntu

[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

Shreyasee Pradhan wrote:
> 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
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Senthil Kumar M
> <senthil.debian at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Shreyasee Pradhan
>> <shreyasee.pradhan at 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.
>>>       
>> <snipped>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> -/
>>
>> "You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear."
>> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in, "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
>>
>>     
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