It does, thank you. I was able to understand enough of it to do the install successfully . Still trying to understand the later paragraphs such as install.package() and the r-cran-foo build dependencies. (the site you pointed me to is the same site i did a printout of yesterday to try to do an install, the readme file prints to 3 pages).
Is there an easy way to: 1: List the R-related packages and add-ons that are already installed? no point in trying to install what you already got! 2: List the R-related packages and add-ons that are available? Probably a big number of them? Also, for people who try Ubuntu out for the first time could be thrown for a loop by the weird way it handles the root account: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo thanks again. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Instructions for authenticating the cran repositories are here: > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ > > r-base comes with whatever the base R libraries are (stats, graphics > etc.). I don't know if MASS in particular is in base because I don't > use it directly. > > As far as I know it's safe to ignore the warnings, but they annoy me > so I always following the instructions linked above. > > The list of packages regularly updated in the cran repo are also > listed on the webpage linked above. > > A couple of further tips: > 1) I usually install packages with sudo aptitude install r-cran-xxx > and then make sure they are up-to date by running update.packages() in > R. > 2) You can also install packages using the regular install.packages() > in an R session. > > Hope that helps, > -Ista > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:11 PM, robstdev <robst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Installing R on Ubuntu 8.10, >> ( using sudo apt-get install r-base , and using one of the cran sites >> (cran.cnr.berkeley.edu)) >> >> the installation process says something about not having some gpg >> public key and >> "are you sure you want to download non-authenticated stuff [y/n]" (to >> which I answered yes). >> I'm assuming this warning can be ignored? >> >> Also: even though the Ubuntu install and online update did a GCC >> install the other day, the R installation did an update of some GCC >> files, which I thought was odd. Probably I can ignore that too. >> >> Once you've installed R, does that automatically include some data >> examples ( such as that MASS library ? )? >> Or does that require further downloads? >> >> Also, thanks for the previous tips >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Ista Zahn > Graduate student > University of Rochester > Department of Clinical and Social Psychology > http://yourpsyche.org > ______________________________________________ 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.
