how can i install R (the statistical package)

[albean]

Hi,

I'm new to ubuntu and linux. I would like to install R but I don't know how. I think i have to issue some apt command at the command line, however, I'm not sure exactly what. I've googled around but could not find anything. I hope somebody can help me to know what command i should type.

Thanks.

[rejser]

Don't think you can apt-get R.
download r-base-core_2.2.0.final-0sarge2_i386.deb r-mathlib_2.2.0.final-0sarge2_i386.deb r-base_2.2.0.final-0sarge2_i386.build r-recommended_2.2.0.final-0sarge2_i386.deb (think you need them all, if you run amd64pick the once which ends on amd64) from
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/sarge/
they worked for me.
Normally firefox saves to desktop, so open a terminal and write
cd Desktop && sudo dpkg -i *.deb

[rejser]

By the way, if you have access to spss it runs perfect under wine

[Ubuntist]

I recently installed R using Synaptic -- just do a search for "r-" in package names.

It works fine from the command line -- just type "R" to start. I've also installed something that is supposed to be a GUI for R, but I haven't yet figured out how to run it.

[albean]

Thanks guys,

I'll give it a try when I get home thise evening.

I'll let you know how it goes.

[towsonu2003]

I recently installed R using Synaptic -- just do a search for "r-" in package names.

It works fine from the command line -- just type "R" to start. I've also installed something that is supposed to be a GUI for R, but I haven't yet figured out how to run it.

R --gui=tk

I tried using gnome, but the package in the repos is empty

[pstep9407]

I didn't like the Tk gui much so I kept looking and found Rcmdr, which is built with ... Tk! But it looks better! Does it work? We'll find out..
To try it out, do :

sudo apt-get install r-cran-rcmdr

Then, to start it, start R normally from the CL, and enter:

library("Rcmdr")

A few seconds later, you should have a working GUI. The creators of the package wrote an academic paper to accompany it -- find it at http://www.jstatsoft.org/v14/i09/v14i09.pdf

[MakubeX]

By the way, if you have access to spss it runs perfect under wine

Perfect? I can't find a way to successfully generate some charts/graphs from my data (when SPSS is executed via Cedega/CrossOver).

In wine, I can't pass the network version/status check - the program terminates a few seconds after showing that "network check" splashscreen.

Do you have some references?

[towsonu2003]

By the way, if you have access to spss it runs perfect under wine

spps doesn't wotk for me in wine