I am running R in the konsole of the Kate editor on an eeePC 900 (standard Xandros OS). When a plot is generated it is initially too large to fit in the screen, but if I click on the plot it automatically resizes to fit properly. I have no idea if this is a default behavior.
Tom Millo Giovanni wrote: > > Dear all, > > I just went through the process of installing R on an eeePC 900 running > Linux. As a Windows useR utterly ignorant about Linux, I'd never have > done it without reading your posts and the R Wiki, so first of all: > thank you! > Next, taking up your thread from some weeks ago, I thought this could be > useful for somebody else too, so here's what I did: > > 1) I followed wolfgang's step-by-step guide at > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/128565.html, > plus > 2) I installed the build dependencies as shown in R Wiki: > > ## quoting from > http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation > :debian#build_r ## > How much supporting software you need to install depends on how much > compilation you want to be able to do with R. If you just want to be > able to run R, you can get r-base-core and all the recommended packages > by doing: > > sudo apt-get install r-base > > If you want to be able to build and install R packages (including those > from CRAN), you can get all the common header files, as well as > r-base-core by doing: > > sudo apt-get install r-base-dev > > If you want to be able to build R from its source code, you can get > build dependencies for R (e.g., compilers, header files) by doing: > > sudo apt-get build-dep r-base > ## end quote ## > > This way I got all the necessary compilers, headers etc. automagically > installed as well, so that install.packages() works fine now: I > installed the whole "Econometrics" task view without problems. I still > haven't tried to install Rmetrics in order to save space on the little > machine, because I do not currently need it, but it should go the same > way: maybe this can solve John's problem? > > I am aware that probably removing the original OS and installing Debian > as suggested by Dirk Eddelbuettel here > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/128605.html would be a > better solution, but I am a complete Linux newbie, never ever tried it > before, so it's good both for me and for family use to retain the > original "easy mode" GUI while having R running on the same machine. > Full desktop mode (=standard KDE) is also easily enabled by adding > kicker and ksmserver (see http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde, I did it > "the manual way" and it worked; just take heed that kicker and ksmserver > were not found in the '900's repository and I had to take them from the > '701's). > > The only thing I wish I were able to do now is to have the graphics > windows defaults changed to a size fitting the small 9'' screen, as now > I have to reduce it and move it to the right by hand every time to > reproduce the results of 'windows>tile" in Windows. If anybody can > help... > > HTH, > Giovanni > > Giovanni Millo > Research Dept., > Assicurazioni Generali SpA > Via Machiavelli 4, > 34131 Trieste (Italy) > tel. +39 040 671184 > fax +39 040 671160 > > # original message: > From: John C Frain <frainj> > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:33:31 +0100 > > Thanks for the step by step guide. It installs a base R and some > libraries very well. I tries to load some of the Rmetrics libraries, > using install.packages() nu ran into problems. I used apt-get install > to install make and gcc from the Xandros repository. gcc also included > binutils, gcc-4.1 and libsspo. Is there an easy answer to the > question what I need to install to get the install process working. > The R Installation and Administration guide says that I just need the > compilers and tools. Installing robustbase gives the following > messages. (If it is as simple as R not being able to find the header > files how do I tell R where to find them?). > > > Best Regards > > > John > > <output in original message suppressed> > > -- > John C Frain > Trinity College Dublin > Dublin 2 > Ireland > www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html > mailto:frainj at tcd.ie > mailto:frainj at gmail.com > > Ai sensi del D.Lgs. 196/2003 si precisa che le informazi...{{dropped:13}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/R-on-an-ASUS-eee-PC%2C-continued---installing-packages-tp17862000p17862223.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
