[R] linux

[Kevin E. Thorpe]

On 05/23/2012 05:00 AM, Soheila Khodakarim wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I can not download R for Linux.
>
> I do not know which file I should install?
>
> Best Regards,
> Soheila
>

Can you provide the list with additional information such as:

What Linux distribution?
What have you tried?

For what it's worth, I always compile from source on Linux.  To do that,
download the source tarball, unpack it and then run the following in the
directory the tarball unpacked to.  For this to work, you will probably
need the devel libraries installed on your system.

./configure
make
make install

Note that you will usually need to run "make install" as root, unless
you modify the installation location.

One reason I do this is, that I figure if my system has the tools
to compile R, I likely won't have concerns about installing packages
that require some compilation as well.

Kevin

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Kevin E. Thorpe
Biostatistician/Trialist,  Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC)
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
email: kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.3016