[R] Installing R on Ubuntu ( 8.10 ) ?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 13 October 2009 at 07:46, Robert Wilkins wrote:
| installing on Ubuntu, how to do it and have people found it to be glitchy?
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| which is easier , binary install or from source ?
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| With the source install, are you less likely to have a dependencies issue ?
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| ( Ubuntu does the GCC install seamlessly, but has no mention of R )

Really?  R has been part of every Ubuntu release. 

So install it from part of the distribution, or use the (usually more
current) CRAN repository for Ubuntu at

      http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

where a detailed README tells you how to go about this.

Dirk

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