Hi,
If you download a package to your harddrive for installation you need to
use the dpkg command like:
1) Download pacakge (foo.deb)
2) Go to the directory
3) dpkg -i foo.deb
But I would advise against this because it is better to use repositories
so R get updated automatically. The standard ubuntu repositories have
old versions of R, see http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ for a
description of how to add the CRAN repositories for the latest version
of R. You can also install a lot of R packages from this repository,
doing this also ensures that they are automatically updated.
cheers and hth,
Paul
Shreyasee Pradhan wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for that.
the way I tried is as follows:
1) Downloaded the r-base package
2) went in that directory where the r-base package was downloaded from
command line
3) entered the command
sudo apt-get install r-base
But got the error, that Couldn't find r-base command.
I don't understand where I went I wrong.
I will definitely try the following commands.
Thanks,
Shreyasee
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Senthil Kumar M
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Shreyasee Pradhan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I am running Ubuntu on my Windows OS through VMware.
I am trying to install R in Ubuntu, but not getting with those commands,
which are there on the site.
Can anyone please tell me how to install it, stepwise, with commands to
be
used.
As I m new to Ubuntu as well, I am not aware of the commands very well.
<snipped>
Hi,
What commands did you try ? What worked and what didn't ? Which site
did you refer ?
Please read the posting guidelines here:
http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html
In the Ubuntu command line, try:
sudo aptitude install r-base
And for a list of R packages that you can install from the Ubuntu
repositories:
aptitude search r- | grep [^A-Za-z0-9] r-
Install them like this:
sudo aptitude install r-cran-package-name
HTH,
Senthil
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