Hello:
I'm trying to install R under Fedora 18 Linux, and I'm confused.
The "R Installation and Administration" manual, sec. 1.1, says, "The
simplest way is to download the most recent R-x.y.z.tar.gz file".
However, I don't know how to get that. My favorite CRAN mirror offers a
"Precombiled binary" via "Download R for Linux". That takes me to an
index with options debian, redhat, suse, and ubuntu. Redhat gives me an
index with options el4, el5, fedora10, and fedora11. I don't think I
want any of those.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Spencer
Installing R on Fedora 18 Linux?
4 messages · Peter Langfelder, Ranjan Maitra, Spencer Graves
You have several options. You can use theF18 package manager to install R directly from a Fedora software repository but the R may be slightly out of date (IIRC Fedora 19 provides R-3.0.0; not sure about F18). Or, on your CRAN mirror page, ignore the "Download and install R" section and go straight to "Source code for all platforms". There you can choose R-3.0.1.tar.gz or (my personal preference) go to "Daily snapshots of current patched and development versions". There choose the link R-patched.tar.gz (without a date; it is a link to the newest patched release). Once you downloaded the tar.gz bundle, proceed as described in the manual. HTH, Peter On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
Hello:
I'm trying to install R under Fedora 18 Linux, and I'm confused. The
"R Installation and Administration" manual, sec. 1.1, says, "The simplest
way is to download the most recent R-x.y.z.tar.gz file". However, I don't
know how to get that. My favorite CRAN mirror offers a "Precombiled binary"
via "Download R for Linux". That takes me to an index with options debian,
redhat, suse, and ubuntu. Redhat gives me an index with options el4, el5,
fedora10, and fedora11. I don't think I want any of those.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Spencer
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.
Fedora does have the latest (both Fedora 18/19) R in the repos. (They are pretty good about this). To install R, try: sudo yum install R-core That will do it. To update, rather than install: try sudo yum update R-core HTH, Ranjan On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 20:22:13 -0700 Peter Langfelder
<peter.langfelder at gmail.com> wrote:
You have several options. You can use theF18 package manager to install R directly from a Fedora software repository but the R may be slightly out of date (IIRC Fedora 19 provides R-3.0.0; not sure about F18). Or, on your CRAN mirror page, ignore the "Download and install R" section and go straight to "Source code for all platforms". There you can choose R-3.0.1.tar.gz or (my personal preference) go to "Daily snapshots of current patched and development versions". There choose the link R-patched.tar.gz (without a date; it is a link to the newest patched release). Once you downloaded the tar.gz bundle, proceed as described in the manual. HTH, Peter On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
Hello:
I'm trying to install R under Fedora 18 Linux, and I'm confused. The
"R Installation and Administration" manual, sec. 1.1, says, "The simplest
way is to download the most recent R-x.y.z.tar.gz file". However, I don't
know how to get that. My favorite CRAN mirror offers a "Precombiled binary"
via "Download R for Linux". That takes me to an index with options debian,
redhat, suse, and ubuntu. Redhat gives me an index with options el4, el5,
fedora10, and fedora11. I don't think I want any of those.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Spencer
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2 days later
Thanks for the replies from Peter Langfelder and Ranjan Maitra.
I tried su, "yum install R-core". That installed R 3.0.1. To
install packages like zoo and RCurl, I had to install other software,
but with the help of a friend, Google, and previous replies to similar
questions on R-Help, R-Devel and stackoverflow, I got past all those.
Thanks again to Peter and Ranjan.
Best Wishes,
Spencer Graves
On 7/6/2013 9:53 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Fedora does have the latest (both Fedora 18/19) R in the repos. (They are pretty good about this). To install R, try: sudo yum install R-core That will do it. To update, rather than install: try sudo yum update R-core HTH, Ranjan On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 20:22:13 -0700 Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder at gmail.com> wrote:
You have several options. You can use theF18 package manager to install R directly from a Fedora software repository but the R may be slightly out of date (IIRC Fedora 19 provides R-3.0.0; not sure about F18). Or, on your CRAN mirror page, ignore the "Download and install R" section and go straight to "Source code for all platforms". There you can choose R-3.0.1.tar.gz or (my personal preference) go to "Daily snapshots of current patched and development versions". There choose the link R-patched.tar.gz (without a date; it is a link to the newest patched release). Once you downloaded the tar.gz bundle, proceed as described in the manual. HTH, Peter On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
Hello:
I'm trying to install R under Fedora 18 Linux, and I'm confused. The
"R Installation and Administration" manual, sec. 1.1, says, "The simplest
way is to download the most recent R-x.y.z.tar.gz file". However, I don't
know how to get that. My favorite CRAN mirror offers a "Precombiled binary"
via "Download R for Linux". That takes me to an index with options debian,
redhat, suse, and ubuntu. Redhat gives me an index with options el4, el5,
fedora10, and fedora11. I don't think I want any of those.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Spencer
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.