"Shreyasee Pradhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > Thanks, > Shreyasee > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Senthil Kumar M > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Shreyasee Pradhan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
