installing R on Ubuntu
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 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 novices? Yes. 'sudo apt-get install r-base ess ggobi' and you have working R, ESS and Ggobi. Start Emacs, type 'M-x R' and you have an R session inside Emacs. Is that really easier to accomplish in Windows?
No. If it is that simple to install R under a Debian vaiant of Linux, it definitely is easier. On the other hand, using Emacs is not (as far as I know) the thing for novices. What I would prefer is something that is as simple to use as the Windows (or even better, the Mac interface) for R.
You might like JGR, then. http://jgr.markushelbig.org/JGR.html -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle