Thanks. I have already installed the most recent version of R from source (./confiure, make, make install), will the revolution-r in the multiverse repository conflict with my own version of R?
I'm not sure how the revolution-r package will play with a version of R installed locally from source. If you want the latest R, you don't have to compile and install from the sources - you can just add the cran ubuntu mirror to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, and install the precompiled binaries direct from cran:
Actually, revolution-r is in the ubuntu multiverse repository:
ReplyDeletehttp://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/gnu-r/revolution-r
Make sure multiverse is enabled, and:
>sudo apt-get install revolution-r
Thanks. I have already installed the most recent version of R from source (./confiure, make, make install), will the revolution-r in the multiverse repository conflict with my own version of R?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how the revolution-r package will play with a version of R installed locally from source. If you want the latest R, you don't have to compile and install from the sources - you can just add the cran ubuntu mirror to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, and install the precompiled binaries direct from cran:
ReplyDeletehttp://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
hi, new to the site, thanks.
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