Type R at the terminal prompt (which we denote as % in
this section) to see if R is available. (Typing q() will
enable you to quit.) If it is installed, proceed to the next section.
If it is not installed and you are not the administrator, contact that
individual, kindly request that they install R on the server, and
continue to the next section. If you have administrator privileges,
you may download the latest release at the
CRAN
website. Although
installation varies according to your Linux distribution, we provide
an example for Red Hat Linux 9.0 as a guide:
- Log in as root.
- Download the appropriate binary file for Red Hat 9 from CRAN.
For example, for Red Hat 9 running on the Intel 386 platform, go to
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/.
- Type the following command at the terminal prompt:
% rpm -ivh R-2.5.1-1.i386.rpm
Gary King
2011-11-29