[R-sig-teaching] installing Rcmdr

[tyler]

Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> writes:

> I've found the version of R in the Ubuntu repository is almost always
> out of date. Here is the process I follow:
>
> 4) Start R from the command line as root so I can install packages
> system-wide: sudo R

As an alternative, if you set the permissions on
/usr/local/lib/R/site-library to allow universal write access, you can
call install.packages() from R without having root privileges:

sudo chmod o+w /usr/local/lib/R/site-library

This way you don't need to start a second R as root when installing new
packages.

Cheers,

Tyler

> 5) From the R command prompt, install Rcmdr: >
> install.packages("Rcmdr", dep=TRUE)
> 6) Start Rcmdr and install additional packages when prompted.
>
> I've never had this procedure fail to produce a working installation.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Ista
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Robert W. Hayden <hayden at mv.mv.com> wrote:
>>
>> Last weekend I visited my sister and her husband and installed R on
>> their Ubuntu 8.04 machine and tried to add Rcmdr.  I had endless
>> trouble most of which seemed to be because R (or Rcmdr) seemed to want
>> a Fortran compiler (or a Fortran-to-C translator).  A smaller number
>> of error mesages (out of many pages thereof) were removed by
>> installing what appeared to be a library of Fortran linear algebra
>> routines (lblas?).  Even then Rcmdr complained about missing packages
>> when I ran it, and though it offered to install them, the installation
>> failed in every case, with no useful error messages.
>>
>> I have installed R and Rcmdr many times before to Windows and various
>> Linux distributions (it's on this Debian right now)  and never had so
>> much trouble.  Did I do something wrong?  Is there a problem with R on
>> Ubuntu?  I have programmed in Fortran so I don't mind adding a
>> compiler and I've taught linear algebra so I don't mind adding linear
>> algebra routines, but there is no way my students would ever figure
>> out that was needed.  I also noted that Rcmdr had a MUCH longer list
>> of dependencies than I remember.  All of this has me worried about
>> using R in an introductory course for folks who are not computer
>> science majors.
>>
>> Has anyone encountered a similar problem?  I used whatever version of
>> R is in the Ubuntu repository.  I seem to remember 2.4 though that
>> seems a bit old.
>>
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>>
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>>
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