SOLVED- Re: help installing R on Linux Mint 21.2
Dirk, I am grateful for all the work and volunteer hours you put into this! And I appreciate the time you and others take to help us newbies.?All the frustration I was expressing (for not being able to install tidyverse) was all on me. It was not in any way a criticism.? Your articles are great, but waaaaay too technical for me (that particular site of yours where I thought the solution is [1] is about 28,000 words long and has too much jargon for me to be able to use it...).? On the 20-second gif that you linked, I can indeed see that you install tidyverse in 20 s, but it is all the prep work before that point that I think I am missing (installing that "docker thing", "rocker thing", etc.). As far as I can tell, to replicate what you did on the gif, I should first look into installing and using docker and rocker. Thank you again for all your help and for the sweat you and other volunteers put into creating, maintaining, and explaining! Best regards, Luben [1] http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/code/r4/
On Wed, 2024-01-03 at 14:46 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Luben,
We all have different types of learning and how we approach this, let alone
how we decompose things. With that, sorry you found this frustrating.? Many
of us put volunteer time into this trying to make things 'possible' and
preferably 'easy' but we don't always get there.
That said, I have shown multiple times over the last few years that the
simple _one statement call_ of `install.packages("tidyverse")` works in r2u
as demonstrated in a Docker container for r2u. I just 'taped' a fresh demo
installing 103 binary packages in twenty seconds from this one command. [1]
Myself, and many others, take advantage of that day in, day out on Ubuntu
systems for direct work, for work in CI, for work on cloud instances, laptops
or servers.? I am sorry that the documentaion did not work for you.? Maybe
you can take another look and provide an issue ticket at the r2u, preferably
short, actionable and focused (ie sending me a 200 line dump of "I did that
and it did not work" does not help me much -- I hope you understand).? Trying
this on Mint puts a little extra burden on you to find and overcome
differences. Again, sorry this did not pan out but glad to know you have it
installed from source.
Cheers, Dirk
[1]
https://eddelbuettel.github.io/images/2024-01-03/tidyverse_in_20s_2024-01-03_14-38.gif