Dear All, A while back, the question was raised whether R would run on an Eee PC:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e3/help/07/12/6564.html There were some positive responses and some suggestions for getting this to work: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e3/help/07/12/7244.html For those who would like a step-by-step guide, here it is. I hope somebody might find this useful. 1) open up a terminal window (Ctrl-Alt-t) 2) get root access (su, then enter password) 3) cd /etc/apt/ 4) pico sources.list (to edit the software repositories list) 5) at the bottom, add the following line: deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2 etch main contrib non-free 6) save and exit with Ctrl-O and Ctrl-X 7) get connected to the internet (I assume you know how to do that) 8) apt-get update (to update the package index files) (you may get a warning about a missing public key; you can ignore this) 9) apt-get install libgfortran1 10) apt-get install tk8.4 (both of these packages are needed before you can install r-base) You could, at this point, also install r-base from the xandros repository. However, it is version 2.4 or something like that, so let's not do that and instead get an up-to-date version. 11) again, go to /etc/apt/ (if you are not there anymore) and edit sources.list 12) remove the line you added under (5) and add the following line: deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ stable/ (the "cran.r-project.org" could be replaced with your favorite mirror). 13) apt-get update (again, missing public key error can be ignored) 14) apt-get install r-base This may take a minute, depending on the speed of your connection. That's it. Now type "exit" to become a regular user again and you should be able to start R by just typing R. You may also remove the line you added under (12) from the sources.list file. Best, -- Wolfgang Viechtbauer Department of Methodology and Statistics University of Maastricht, The Netherlands http://www.wvbauer.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
