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Tutorial: Install and Run R on Linux

Linux R Package

Download and Install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base

Running R from the Linux command line:

Probably, the simplest way to run R under Linux is to run it from the Linux command line. That is,

$ R

To quit R:

q()

Running R in an application window under Linux:

$ R -g Tk &

Help

For more information about running R from the Linux command line including available options type

$ R --help
linux r

It would be good if you include at least one pipeline.

The download and install is not linux its debian. For a tutorial its also very thin and trivial. At least include pointers on how to do real work, like all the interactive online courses. And bioconductor.

Hi Rafay, I think this tutorial is incomplete and lacks information. Please take thoughts from included refs and include more information or rewrite, if you want. Tutorials can be very specific or general. If you want to write one, make sure, you have all the pointers (as others said) and required information.

Cheers
http://www.jason-french.com/blog/2013/03/11/installing-r-in-linux/

http://a-little-book-of-r-for-biomedical-statistics.readthedocs.org/en/latest/src/installr.html

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Version specific installation using source code is much different than the installation using YUM or APT. It depends on OS version and the number of dependencies that need to be met for the installation to complete successfully. I have documented the installation of R 3.3.3 on SLES11 SP3 in http://hashprompt.blogspot.com/2017/06/installation-of-r-on-suse-linux.html Hope that it might help you install on linux systems.

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