[R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

[Mohamed Abdolell]

Hi Andy,

I certainly deffer to both you and Dirk on this ... my suggestions were only
ment to get an installation of R up and running on Xandros.  I'm by no means
an expert, as you can see by my missuse of the term 'dependencies'.  I'd had
trouble using apt-get so I fiddled with Xandros Networks until I got
something that worked.

Perhaps, either you or Dirk could comment on the following for me ... when I
tried the installation on Xandros using the method I indicated, everything
seemed to install.  But, when I tried running some R code I'd written and
run on WinXP it actually ran slower than on either WinXP or on Quantian ...
would this have something to do with the way I installed R?

Thanks.

- Mohamed


-----Original Message-----
From: Liaw, Andy [mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com]
Sent: 14 January 2005 08:20
To: 'Mohamed Abdolell'; Thomas.Volscho at uconn.edu; Thomas W Volscho
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0


I think Dirk's recommendation is better.  If the system lacks tools to
compile R from source, install.packages() will not work for many packages,
as that compile packages from source.

Andy

ps:  Thanks to those who pointed out about availability of dev tools in
Xandros & Unbuntu.  I still can't get comfortable with a *nix system that
doesn't have compilers installed by default...


> From: Mohamed Abdolell
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> [1] go to http://packages.debian.org/testing/math/ and
> download r-base and other
> essential packages to your computer
> [2] install packages using Xandros Networks; from the
> pull-down menu select
> File-->Install DEB file...
> [3] once you have a functional R 2.0.1 working install the
> rest of the packages
> you want directly from within R using install.packages (see
> help for this); this
> is best since all the dependencies are sorted out automatically
>
> HTH.
>
> - Mohamed
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
>
> Quoting Thomas W Volscho <THOMAS.VOLSCHO at huskymail.uconn.edu>:
>
> > Dear List,
> > After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too
> much, I installed
> > Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if
> migrating from
> > WinXP.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to install R on this OS?
> >
> > Thank you for your time,
> > Tom Volscho
> >
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