[R] installing R on Ubuntu, can ignore warning messages?

[Ista Zahn]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Robert Wilkins <robstdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> It does, thank you. I was able to understand enough of it to do the
> install successfully . Still trying to understand the later paragraphs
> such as install.package() and the r-cran-foo build dependencies. (the
> site you pointed me to is the same site i did a printout of yesterday
> to try to do an install, the readme file prints to 3 pages).
>
> Is there an easy way to:
> 1: List the R-related packages and add-ons that are already installed?
> no point in trying to install what you already got!
Open a terminal and type

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude search r-cran

The packages marked with an "i" on the leftmost column are installed.
Those marked with a p are not installed.

> 2: List the R-related packages and add-ons that are available?
> Probably a big number of them?
sudo aptitude search r-cran will give you the list of packages
available through the apt package management system. Additional
packages are listed on the CRAN website, and can be installed using
install.packages("PackageName") at the R command line.

>
> Also, for people who try Ubuntu out for the first time could be thrown
> for a loop by the weird way it handles the root account:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
Depends on what your're used to. I've been using Ubuntu long enough
that sudo is second nature...
>
> thanks again.
Glad to help.

-Ista
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Instructions for authenticating the cran repositories are here:
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>>
>> r-base comes with whatever the base R libraries are (stats, graphics
>> etc.). I don't know if MASS in particular is in base because I don't
>> use it directly.
>>
>> As far as I know it's safe to ignore the warnings, but they annoy me
>> so I always following the instructions linked above.
>>
>> The list of packages regularly updated in the cran repo are also
>> listed on the webpage linked above.
>>
>> A couple of further tips:
>> 1) I usually install packages with sudo aptitude install r-cran-xxx
>> and then make sure they are up-to date by running update.packages() in
>> R.
>> 2) You can also install packages using the regular install.packages()
>> in an R session.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> -Ista
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:11 PM, robstdev <robstdev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Installing R on Ubuntu 8.10,
>>> ( using sudo apt-get install r-base , and using one of the cran sites
>>> (cran.cnr.berkeley.edu))
>>>
>>> the installation process says something about not having some gpg
>>> public key and
>>> "are you sure you want to download non-authenticated stuff [y/n]"  (to
>>> which I answered yes).
>>> I'm assuming this warning can be ignored?
>>>
>>> Also: even though the Ubuntu install and online update did a GCC
>>> install the other day, the R installation did an update of some GCC
>>> files, which I thought was odd. Probably I can ignore that too.
>>>
>>> Once you've installed R, does that automatically include some data
>>> examples ( such as that MASS library ? )?
>>> Or does that require further downloads?
>>>
>>> Also, thanks for the previous tips
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Ista Zahn
>> Graduate student
>> University of Rochester
>> Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
>> http://yourpsyche.org
>>
>



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