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R is a free, open-source programming language and software environment for statistical computing, bioinformatics, and graphics.

R is a free, open-source programming language and software environment for statistical computing, bioinformatics, and graphics. R is an implementation of the S programming language combined with lexical scoping semantics inspired by Scheme. R was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman and is now developed by the R Development Core Team. The R environment is easily extended through a packaging system on CRAN, the Comprehensive R Archive Network.

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How to install rgdal on Ubuntu 12.10?

I'm strugling to install rgdal library on Ubuntu 12.10. Installation from within R results in error: Error: gdal-config not found The gdal-config script distributed with GDAL could not be found. If you have not installed the GDAL libraries, you…
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Multiline R commands are only partially shown in the command line history

I generally use R from the command line. However, this problem has been annoying me. When I use the up arrow to get a previous command, if that command was multiple lines, then R only shows the last line (although if I execute the command, it…
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What is the name of the package for R?

I tried aptitude search r, but (unsurprisingly), there are waaaay too many results to sift through.
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Problem installing R 4.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

R released an upgrade to version 4.0 about two weeks ago. I am trying to update R on my ubuntu 18.04 work station (sudo apt install r-base), but I am told that "r-base is already the newest version (3.6.3-1bionic)". But that isn't the newest…
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Installing R on Ubuntu - getting updates to work

I have installed R. However, when I update my system it complains that the R updates aren't authenticated. What do I have to do to authenticate them?
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Install RStudio: " 'rstudio-server' already exists"

I wanted to update RStudio, I uninstalled the version that I had and followed these commands to install the newest version. sudo apt-get install gdebi-core wget https://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-0.99.896-amd64.deb sudo gdebi…
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R script returns "Error in library(httr) : there is no package called ‘httr’" - what should I do?

I am trying to run an R code in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for sending SMS via Plivo, in my script I am using a library #!/usr/bin/env Rscript library(httr) code .... After running this I get the error below Error in library(httr) : there is no package…
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Setting up the proxy for rstudio

My machine is running on Ubuntu 14.04, and I have already tried looking at Configuring R to Use an HTTP Proxy in the FAQ section of Rstudio support. This is what I did till now... in my home directory, I created a file named .Renviron with the…
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installing R in Ubuntu...issue

I have attempted to install R on my Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety. I placed the following deb in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. deb http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/linux/ubuntu yakkety main universe restricted multiverse However, after running sudo…
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Can't install R with sudo apt-get install r-base

When I try to install R with sudo apt-get install r-base, it says Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an…
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Adding switzerland cran mirror for R in /etc/apt/sources.list

I've got an error while trying to add the R cran mirror for Switzerland to the sources.list file (http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/), even though I followed the instructions from page http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/ (I'm running Ubuntu 13.04) I really can't find…
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Problems with ggpairs()- function

I am running R 4.0.3 within RStudio on my laptop with Ubuntu 20.04. I tried to use the ggpairs() function out of the GGally library and some parts of the plot can't be displayed. The value of the correlation shows strange artefacts instead of values…
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How to install R 3.5.0 on 17.1?

I have downloaded the tar file, but it refuses to make. Please guide me how to do this please.
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Install R in Linux Server

I have tried install R in Linux operated server system and I dont have admin rights so I couldnt usu "sudo". I have download latest version of R from https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.4.1.tar.gz. Then I started to install and…
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How to install ibicui18n.so.55

I was trying to install a 'qgraph' R package in RStudio when the erros happens: libicui18n.so.55: Unable to open shared object file: File or directory not found. Somebody would help how to fix this problem ? Tks
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