Re: [R] installing r on ubuntu ?

2014-04-07 Thread Qiang Kou
Try this: gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv 51716619E084DAB9 gpg --export --armor 51716619E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add - Best, KK On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Witold E Wolski wrote: > Hi, > > trying to install newest R on ubuntu > > I follow the instructions at: > http://cran.at.r-p

[R] installing r on ubuntu ?

2014-04-07 Thread Witold E Wolski
Hi, trying to install newest R on ubuntu I follow the instructions at: http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ I added: deb http://cran.r-mirror.de/bin/linux/ubuntu saucy/ to: /etc/apt/sources.list running : sudo apt-get update produces : W: GPG error: http://cran.r-mirror.de sauc

Re: [R] Installing R on Ubuntu

2012-11-15 Thread Suzen, Mehmet
Try Prof. Wilkinson's recent blog entry: http://darrenjw.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/keeping-r-up-to-date-on-ubuntu-linux/ On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Karel van Duijvenboden wrote: > Hello R-help team, > > I seek your help (for what is most likely a very simple problem). I'm new > to Ubuntu a

[R] Installing R on Ubuntu

2012-11-15 Thread Karel van Duijvenboden
Hello R-help team, I seek your help (for what is most likely a very simple problem). I'm new to Ubuntu and tried to install R using the Ubuntu Software Center. However, after clicking the install command, I always get prompted with the error " Failed to download package files --- check your intern

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

2009-10-14 Thread David Winsemius
On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Robert Wilkins 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

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

2009-10-14 Thread Ista Zahn
I should have also mentioned that you can search for r-cran in the synaptic package manage if you're more comfortable with that than the command line. This will also show you which packages are installed/available. -Ista On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Ista Zahn wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 a

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

2009-10-14 Thread Ista Zahn
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Robert Wilkins 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

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

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Wilkins
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 inst

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

2009-10-14 Thread Ista Zahn
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

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

2009-10-14 Thread robstdev
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).

Re: [R] Installing R on Ubuntu ( 8.10 ) ?

2009-10-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 13 October 2009 at 07:46, Robert Wilkins wrote: | installing on Ubuntu, how to do it and have people found it to be glitchy? | | which is easier , binary install or from source ? | | With the source install, are you less likely to have a dependencies issue ? | | ( Ubuntu does the GCC install

Re: [R] Installing R on Ubuntu ( 8.10 ) ?

2009-10-13 Thread Ista Zahn
It's not glitchy, and you install it just like any other program. If you want the latest version you can follow the instructions here: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/. Otherwise "sudo aptitude install r-base r-base-dev" will do the trick. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Robert Wilkins

[R] Installing R on Ubuntu ( 8.10 ) ?

2009-10-13 Thread Robert Wilkins
installing on Ubuntu, how to do it and have people found it to be glitchy? which is easier , binary install or from source ? With the source install, are you less likely to have a dependencies issue ? ( Ubuntu does the GCC install seamlessly, but has no mention of R ) __

Re: [R] Installing R on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-05-16 Thread Maria I. Tchalakova
n >> Behalf Of Maria I. Tchalakova >> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:37 AM >> To: R-help Forum >> Subject: [R] Installing R on Ubuntu 8.10 >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to install R on Ubuntu 8.10. I have added this line: >> >> deb http://cran.at.r

Re: [R] Installing R on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-05-16 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Maria I. Tchalakova > Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:37 AM > To: R-help Forum > Subject: [R] Installing R on Ubuntu 8.10 > > Hi, > > I am trying

[R] Installing R on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-05-16 Thread Maria I. Tchalakova
Hi, I am trying to install R on Ubuntu 8.10. I have added this line: deb http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu intrepid/ in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. However when I "Reload", I get the following error message: W: GPG error: http://cran.at.r-project.org intrepid/ Release: The followi

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-11 Thread Vincent Goulet
Thanks, Paul, for the instructions. However, as it has been pointed out by Dirk a couple of times, most of these instructions (those related to R installation and the location of package files at least) can already be found in the Ubuntu README: http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linu

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-10 Thread Rolf Turner
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Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-10 Thread Douglas Bates
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: > Dear me. Is the installation of R under Ubuntu really that complex? I have > a dual boot machine (Linux / Windows, where I use the latter the most) and > have plans to try R under Linux, but have not done so yet. Is it possible > to si

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-10 Thread Neil Shephard
znmeb wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Neil Shephard wrote: >> >> There are pro's and con's to each of the GNU/Linux flavours and its >> really a >> matter of deciding which you like/have invested time in learning. >> >> Irrespective its still simple to install R from source under GN

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-09 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Neil Shephard wrote: > > The preceived "difficulty" of installing R under whatever flavour of > GNU/Linux in this thread stems from being unfamiliar with the process of the > package management of the flavour of GNU/Linux you use (and in part by the > various distro

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-09 Thread Michael Dewey
At 07:58 09/02/2009, Thomas Lumley wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 8 February 2009 at 20:36, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: | Dear me. Is the installation of R under Ubuntu really that complex? I | have a dual boot machine (Linux / Windows, where

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-09 Thread Neil Shephard
The preceived "difficulty" of installing R under whatever flavour of GNU/Linux in this thread stems from being unfamiliar with the process of the package management of the flavour of GNU/Linux you use (and in part by the various distros not having the most recent version of R in their repositories

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-09 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 02/09/09 10:06, Gavin Simpson wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 16:21 -0500, Jonathan Baron wrote: > As much as I love Fedora (and I've used it from Core 1 onwards and > haven't been swayed by Ubuntu's lovely brownness), I should point out > that it need *not* be as simple as you make out on Fedora

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-09 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 16:21 -0500, Jonathan Baron wrote: > For those reading this thread who might be thinking of trying Linux, I > would like to point out that, with Fedora (another distribution of > Linux aside from Ubuntu), the repositories are up to date, and there > seems to be someone connect

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-09 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 8 February 2009 at 20:36, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: | Dear me. Is the installation of R under Ubuntu really that complex? I | have a dual boot machine (Linux / Windows, where I use the latter the | most) and have plan

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
Thanks Dirk, it worked like a charm :) Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > On 8 February 2009 at 12:14, Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: > | Hi Dirk, > | Sorry, I'm not trying to drag out the installation process here, but > just > | trying to get it to work right in Linux. > | > | > | Dirk Eddelbue

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 February 2009 at 12:23, Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: | | I'm definitely out of my league here, but I think that if someone only enters | that code in an Ubuntu system, then they will have only the latest version | of R in Ubuntu, which at this time I think is 2.6.2, instead of 2.8.1, and P

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 February 2009 at 12:14, Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: | Hi Dirk, | Sorry, I'm not trying to drag out the installation process here, but just | trying to get it to work right in Linux. | | | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > What is wrong with | > | > $ sudo apt-get install r-cran-rgl

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Jonathan Baron
For those reading this thread who might be thinking of trying Linux, I would like to point out that, with Fedora (another distribution of Linux aside from Ubuntu), the repositories are up to date, and there seems to be someone connected with Fedora (as well as the R core team) who is interested in

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 8 February 2009 at 20:36, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: | Dear me. Is the installation of R under Ubuntu really that complex? I | have a dual boot machine (Linux / Windows, where I use the latter the | most) and have plans to try R under Linux, but have not done so yet

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
Hi Brian, I'm sure buttons are slow compared to keystrokes, but how do you stop R with a keystroke, similar to the R interface in Windows? Thanks. Sorry about the JGS-JGR goof...just coming across too many new things right now. JGR it is. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
Hi Dirk, Many thanks for your insight. Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > Paul, > > Very nice! Comments below. > > On 7 February 2009 at 17:12, Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: > | > | I've read some of R's literature on Linux, including the R Admin manual, > and > | didn't find it very useful, w

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
I'm definitely out of my league here, but I think that if someone only enters that code in an Ubuntu system, then they will have only the latest version of R in Ubuntu, which at this time I think is 2.6.2, instead of 2.8.1, and Ubuntu only "maintains" a handful of packages, instead of 1600+ right

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
Thanks John, I appreciate it. It sounds like Emacs is the way to go for an editor. John Fox-6 wrote: > > Dear Paul, > > I haven't read everything in this thread, but have a couple of comments > relative to using the R Commander: > > ... > > The R Commander isn't meant to be a serious progra

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
Hi Dirk, Sorry, I'm not trying to drag out the installation process here, but just trying to get it to work right in Linux. Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > What is wrong with > > $ sudo apt-get install r-cran-rgl > I tried this suggestion, and here was the terminal output: r-cran-rgl is

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread John Fox
8-09 9:08 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu > > > I would really like to see a good introduction to Emacs, and will check out > that link. I know that Emacs and ESS are supposed to be the best, and are > the most customizable. The reaso

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 February 2009 at 06:56, Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: | | Amendment/Question #1: | | When I update.packages(), it tells me that rgl fails to update because it | can't find X11. Again, I'm pretty new to Ubuntu, but it looks like X comes | with Ubuntu. I see files under /etc/X11. Does this

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Paul, Very nice! Comments below. On 7 February 2009 at 17:12, Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: | | I've read some of R's literature on Linux, including the R Admin manual, and | didn't find it very useful, which is probably my own limitation. But I did | finally manage to get it working well. I

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 February 2009 at 20:36, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: | Dear me. Is the installation of R under Ubuntu really that complex? I | have a dual boot machine (Linux / Windows, where I use the latter the | most) and have plans to try R under Linux, but have not done so yet. Is | it possible to si

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: I would really like to see a good introduction to Emacs, and will check out that link. I know that Emacs and ESS are supposed to be the best, and are the most customizable. The reason I put the R Commander GUI instead of Emacs/ESS is because i

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Joseph Magagnoli
When I use ubuntu linux and R I use komodo edit with an R extension. Seems really similar to tinn-R. http://www.sciviews.org/SciViews-K/index.html joe On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Paul Heinrich Dietrich < paul.heinrich.dietr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Amendment/Question #1: > > When I update.

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Dear me. Is the installation of R under Ubuntu really that complex? I have a dual boot machine (Linux / Windows, where I use the latter the most) and have plans to try R under Linux, but have not done so yet. Is it possible to simplify the Linux install procedure to make R more accessible to

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
Amendment/Question #1: When I update.packages(), it tells me that rgl fails to update because it can't find X11. Again, I'm pretty new to Ubuntu, but it looks like X comes with Ubuntu. I see files under /etc/X11. Does this mean I need to download x11-common (or x11-apps, or x11-utils, or one o

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
I would really like to see a good introduction to Emacs, and will check out that link. I know that Emacs and ESS are supposed to be the best, and are the most customizable. The reason I put the R Commander GUI instead of Emacs/ESS is because in my first attempt to get R on Ubuntu Linux, I did su

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread cruz
nice:) The next step is to install Emacs, because we need a editor as we code, we need to run the line as we go, so here is a very good guide for the complete starter: http://www.stat.rice.edu/~helpdesk/tutorial/ess.html The official ESS manual does not bother to go into this brief, I can't even

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
I've read some of R's literature on Linux, including the R Admin manual, and didn't find it very useful, which is probably my own limitation. But I did finally manage to get it working well. I'm posting this to help others. The following worked when installing R 2.8.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
I've read some of R's literature on Linux, including the R Admin manual, and didn't find it very useful, which is probably my own limitation. But I did finally manage to get it working well. I'm posting this to help others. The following worked when installing R 2.8.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Re: [R] Installing R on ubuntu dapper

2008-01-07 Thread hadley wickham
On 1/7/08, Emmanuel Charpentier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hadley wickham a écrit : > > I followed the instructions at > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html, but I'm > > getting the following error: > > > > ~: sudo apt-get install r-base > > Reading package lists... Done > >

Re: [R] Installing R on ubuntu dapper

2008-01-07 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
hadley wickham a écrit : > I followed the instructions at > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html, but I'm > getting the following error: > > ~: sudo apt-get install r-base > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Some packages could not be installed. T

[R] Installing R on ubuntu dapper

2008-01-06 Thread hadley wickham
I followed the instructions at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html, but I'm getting the following error: ~: sudo apt-get install r-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an i