installing Rcmdr
Dear Jay, Bob, Ista, I, too, have installed Rcmdr on Ubuntu systems several times with no problems. I suspect that r-base-dev wasn't installed and that Ista's procedure will produce the desired result. Ista: Do you mind if I add your procedure, slightly edited and with credit, to the Rcmdr installation page? Step 6, however, shouldn't be necessary after installing with dep=TRUE, nor, I think, should step 3, since there's only R code in the Rcmdr package. Regards, John
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[mailto:r-sig-teaching-bounces at r-
project.org] On Behalf Of Ista Zahn Sent: February-14-09 11:12 PM To: bob at statland.org Cc: R-sig-teaching Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] installing Rcmdr I've found the version of R in the Ubuntu repository is almost always out of date. Here is the process I follow: 1) Add the R repository (see http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/). 2) Install R and the dev package: sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev 3) Install any packages needed to build a particular package. In this case something like sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rcmdr (I'm not on my ubuntu machine at the moment so I'm not sure the package name is correct). 4) Start R from the command line as root so I can install packages system-wide: sudo R 5) From the R command prompt, install Rcmdr: > install.packages("Rcmdr", dep=TRUE) 6) Start Rcmdr and install additional packages when prompted. I've never had this procedure fail to produce a working installation. Hope it helps, Ista
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[mailto:r-sig-teaching-bounces at r-
project.org] On Behalf Of G. Jay Kerns Sent: February-14-09 9:55 PM To: bob at statland.org Cc: R-sig-teaching Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] installing Rcmdr Dear Robert, On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Robert W. Hayden <hayden at mv.mv.com>
wrote:
Last weekend I visited my sister and her husband and installed R on their Ubuntu 8.04 machine and tried to add Rcmdr. I had endless trouble most of which seemed to be because R (or Rcmdr) seemed to want a Fortran compiler (or a Fortran-to-C translator). A smaller number of error mesages (out of many pages thereof) were removed by installing what appeared to be a library of Fortran linear algebra routines (lblas?). Even then Rcmdr complained about missing packages when I ran it, and though it offered to install them, the installation failed in every case, with no useful error messages. I have installed R and Rcmdr many times before to Windows and various Linux distributions (it's on this Debian right now) and never had so much trouble. Did I do something wrong? Is there a problem with R on Ubuntu? I have programmed in Fortran so I don't mind adding a compiler and I've taught linear algebra so I don't mind adding linear algebra routines, but there is no way my students would ever figure out that was needed. I also noted that Rcmdr had a MUCH longer list of dependencies than I remember. All of this has me worried about using R in an introductory course for folks who are not computer science majors. Has anyone encountered a similar problem? I used whatever version of R is in the Ubuntu repository. I seem to remember 2.4 though that seems a bit old. -------> First-time AP Stats. teacher? Help is on the way! See
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I am and have been using Rcmdr on Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04, and currently on 8.10. I used 32 bit Ubuntu for 7.10 and 8.04, but on 8.10 I am using both 32 and 64 bit versions. For the record, I have had no problems whatsoever installing Rcmdr. First thought (and you didn't mention): are you sure that you have the r-base-dev Ubuntu package installed? If you do not have that installed, then you won't be able to build _anything_. If you already have r-base-dev....? it is good practice to install the packages from the repository with Synaptic (which it sounds like is what you did), since in those cases, dependencies are marked automatically for installation most of the time. Another thing that you could try is to right-click on packages in Synaptic - it gives other packages "suggested" for installation. In some cases, installing these extra packages helped me with installation problems elsewhere, too. And you could consider contacting John Fox directly. He's great about responding quickly, thoughtfully, and accurately. Good luck. Jay *************************************************** G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mathematics & Statistics Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) -3302 Department -3170 FAX E-mail: gkerns at ysu.edu http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/
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