[R-SIG-Finance] Methods of installing R on Linux

[Cedrick Johnson]

The latest version is 2.15 now... You can upgrade using Ubuntu (mint) deb entries (also check out the r-sig-Debian list)..

instructions for installing the CRAN apt entries and upgrading via apt is here: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

On May 27, 2012, at 6:23 PM, "Worik Stanton" <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excuse me that this is slightly off topic for this list. But I see a lot of interesting pieces of code go by on this list that I cannot use as I use the R installed by my distribution (mint, essentially Ubuntu ).
> 
> For instance:
> 
>> > install.packages("forecast")
>> Installing package(s) into ‘/home/worik/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13’
>> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>> Warning message:
>> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>> package ‘forecast’ is not available (for R version 2.13.1)
>> >
> 
> So I plan to install the best R I can to run code and test ideas from this list. So what is the best way to proceed? By default I would compile the latest source from https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source. But as this is where I lurk to to find R goodness so what is the standard way people here install R?
> 
> cheers
> Worik
> 
> -- 
> it does not matter                      I think that I shall never see
> how much I dig and dig                    A billboard lovely as a tree
> this hole just                      Indeed, unless the billboards fall
> keeps getting deeper                      I'll never see a tree at all
> 
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Finance at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance
> -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first.
> -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.