download/install R in Ubuntu for new users

Thu, Jul 28, 2011 1:34 PM #

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Dirk Eddelbuettel

Thu, Jul 28, 2011 1:56 PM #

On 28 July 2011 at 13:34, Mark Allen wrote:

| For someone who is transitioning away from Windows to Ubuntu for the sake of
| R, can anyone point me to fail-safe, step-by-step instructions on how to
| install/upgrade R? I've followed the instructions from other threads here
| but still get 2.12.1 when I launch R.

Did you read the README at the site providing the updates, eg at

    http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

?

Dirk

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