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installing R on Ubuntu

32 messages · cruz, Joseph Magagnoli, Brian Ripley +16 more

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jim holtman
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'combn' will give you the combinations that you can then use as
parameters in the function:
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] "a"  "a"  "b"
[2,] "b"  "c"  "c"
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM, patricia garc?a gonz?lez
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      Neil Shephard
    

    

      
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What, a Linux distro that *doesn't* come with gcc!!  I have to say I'm quite
amazed at that!!

gfortran is usually a component of gcc, no?

I agree that ensuring libraries are available for all of the packages can be
tricky, but its not insurmountable (although its one of the reasons I left
Slackware in favour of Gentoo), but its no different to learning the
vagaries of M$-windows.  Its a common misconception I see frequently that
"computers/software should just work", and thats really not the case.  They
do what they are told to, and the person using them often needs to
understand them in a bit of detail, and this detail is often occluded under
Windows so when people try to make the transition from to GNU/Linux they are
initially over-whelmed.

Anyway, all OT.

Neil

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Douglas Bates
    

    

      
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On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Tom Backer Johnsen <backer at psych.uib.no> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
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I know that Dirk has already responded to you about

sudo apt-get install r-base

etc.

so you are already set up.  However, I couldn't resist pointing out
that you describe installing the Windows binary package for running R
and installing precompiled packages.  If you should decide to build a
package under Windows it ain't that simple.  It is much, much simpler
than it was in the past but it still involves a lot more than

sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

Windows and Linux are tuned to different types of users.  Linux users
love to be able to tinker (which is why my wife requires me to sit
quietly and *not touch anything* whenever I visit her in her lab -
there are stories of hours spent recalibrating instruments after I was
left alone for just a few minutes).  A full development environment
installed with a minimum of fuss is expected by Linux users.  Things
are different under Windows.

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Rolf Turner
    

    

      
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On 11/02/2009, at 11:52 AM, Douglas Bates wrote:

        
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A fortune candidate?

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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      Vincent Goulet
    

    

      
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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/linux/ubuntu/

Best regards,

Vincent


Le sam. 7 f?vr. ? 20:13, Paul Heinrich Dietrich a ?crit :