I have recently started using the Cloud 9 IDE and migrated my code from Windows 7 Professional system. Cloud 9 provides an Ubuntu VM pre-configured with Node.js, Python, etc. I am unable to install my favorite programming language, R, using the set of instructions provided on the CRAN site.
This is the set of instructions here.
I am unable to get this off the ground and have tripped over the very first step of downloading R from a CRAN mirror. I have tried:
somebody:~/workspace $ deb https://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
bash: deb: command not found
Clearly, I am a noob when it comes to Linux. Any help?
Update:
Downloaded with
wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.0.3.tar.gz
tar -xzf R-3.0.3.tar.gz
cd R-3.0.3
Installed with
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base
Launched as
someone:~/workspace/R-3.0.3 $ R
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For whatever reason, Amazon moved R to the so-called "Extras Library" so you can't install R using sudo yum install -y R anymore. Instead, you have to do sudo amazon-linux-extras install R3.4. As a result, I can only install R 3.4.3 when the newest stable release is 3.6.1, and so many R libraries can't even be installed because the version is too low. Is there any good and clean way to install the latest version of R and skip Amazon's package manager? Thanks!
Use amazon-linux-extras which installs R4.0.2:
amazon-linux-extras install R4
You may need root:
sudo amazon-linux-extras install R4
I've tried setting up R 3.6.x on a docker container that uses the amazonlinux image. My approach was to get the R source file from the below link and install from source
cd /tmp/
wget https://cloud.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.6.3.tar.gz
tar -zxf R-3.6.3.tar.gz
cd /tmp/R-3.6.3
./configure --without-libtiff --without-lapack --without-ICU --disable-R-profiling --disable-nls
make
make install
you will need to yum install some dependencies, like 'make', which doesn't seem to come with aws amazonlinux docker image (which i think mirrors the EC2 instance AMI image you are referring to).
The above kind of worked for me in that i had a working R3.6 installation, but it didnt allow me use it with rshiny server, so i'm reverting to the shipped 3.4.3 version.
tl;dr: you'll probably have to manually download the source files and install the desired R version from source, and throw in some build dependencies as well.
Try this on Amazon Linux 2
yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum -y install R
Amazon Linux 2 Image contains extras library that can be used as well. Follow the guide here.
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-install-extras-library-software/
sudo amazon-linux-extras enable R3.4
sudo yum clean metadata && sudo yum install R3.4
I am learning to use RSelenium in an EC2 instance, and I found this handy guide on doing so - https://rpubs.com/grahamplace/rselenium-ec2 - however the guide focuses on an Ubuntu instance and I am using an Amazon Linux Instance. In order to install RSelenium, the guide says I must externally (outside of R but ssh'd into my EC2 instance) install the packages xml (XML i think, case sensitive) and RCurl. The guide's relevant lines of code are:
sudo apt-get install r-cran-xml
sudo apt-get install r-cran-RCurl
however, since I'm in an Amazon Linux instance, I tried:
sudo yum install r-cran-xml
sudo yum install r-cran-RCurl
for which I get the following error:
No package r-cran-RCurl available.
Error: Nothing to do
Note: I was successful in installing R on my machine (my instance), and I am able to simply type R to launch R in the EC2 instance.
Note2: install.packages('XML') and install.packages('RCurl') with R launched do not work either.
Any help appreciated with this, thanks!
the amazon linux R package has a different name:
sudo yum install -y R
then you tried (in R) install.packages(c('XML','RCurl')), but the installation failed.
as you discovered and describe in the comment below, you needed to install an additional amazon linux package, libxml2-devel, in order to install.packages('XML') successfully.
this is what I get when I run sudo yum install -y R
No package R available.
Error: Nothing to do
R is available in Amazon Linux Extra topic "R3.4"
To use, run
sudo amazon-linux-extras install R3.4
Learn more at
https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/faqs/#Amazon_Linux_Extras
I have a an Amazon Linux instance which uses R to write a function to do some data analysis. I now want to call this function using a REST API. It seems that OpenCPU can get the job done for me.
I have found links to install OpenCPU on Ubuntu, but is there an easy to way to install it on Amazon Linux instance.
PS: I tried
sudo yum -y install opencpu
sudo yum -y install opencpu-server
It says no such package available.
I managed to get it installed from this script https://github.com/jeroenooms/opencpu-server/blob/master/rpm/buildscript.sh.
We now have rpm packages for CentOS 6 and 7 at https://archive.opencpu.org/
I'm a newbie to Linux and try to install the latest R version on my Raspberry.
My Raspberry runs on Wheezy 7.8.
I followed instructions on CRAN, so I
added
deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/debian wheezy-cran3/
to /etc/apt/sources.list
ran apt-get update which was successful and gave me only a "signature error" for the public key as pointed out on the CRAN-site
ran apt-get install r-base
But the result of the last command is
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.1.2-1~wheezycran3.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: r-recommended (= 3.1.2-1~wheezycran3.0) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I tried to install R-2.15 before and then run the above commands. R-2.15 could be installed successfuly, but I'd need R-3* really.
I did browse the web, but couldn't find any useful hints for my specific problem, so I appreciate any support you could give me.
Thanks!
If it is of any use:
apt-cache policy r-base gives
r-base:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.1.2-1~wheezycran3.0
Version table:
3.1.2-1~wheezycran3.0 0
500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/debian/ wheezy-cran3/ Packages
3.1.0-1~wheezycran3.0 0
500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/debian/ wheezy-cran3/ Packages
2.15.1-4 0
500 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main armhf Packages
apt-cache policy r-base-core gives
r-base-core:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.15.1-4
Version table:
2.15.1-4 0
500 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main armhf Packages
uname -a gives
Linux raspberrypi 3.18.5+ #744 PREEMPT Fri Jan 30 18:19:07 GMT 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux
I had the same situation and decided to install that from the source code instead of install R from the repository(apt-get command).
Here is the command I run on my Raspberry Pi 2.
I could install and run R(3.1.2) sucessfully.
It might not be complete answer for you because I might already installed the library like gcc you did not have before. If you encounter the other issue, please let me know. I would like to solve it.
Just as a side note on this topic, because sudo make install process took a long time(maybe over a hour. I'm not sure because I feel asleep before I knew it...), I recommend you to do this when you have enough or before going to sleep like me.
wget http://cran.rstudio.com/src/base/R-3/R-3.1.2.tar.gz
mkdir R_HOME
mv R-3.1.2.tar.gz R_HOME/
cd R_HOME/
tar zxvf R-3.1.2.tar.gz
cd R-3.1.2/
sudo apt-get install gfortran libreadline6-dev libx11-dev libxt-dev
./configure
make
sudo make install
R
The cause of your problem is likely that the cran repository provides armel versions of the packages, and not armhf (which is the expected architecture for your RPI). If this is right, then you have two solutions:
The first work-around could be to download the armel version of the packages and then force their installation despite the architecture mismatch. It is supposed to work according to the Debian wiki, although you may experience performance issues:
The CPU in the Raspberry Pi implements the ARMv6 ISA (with VFP2) and
is thus incompatible with the Debian armhf port baseline of ARMv7+VFP3
and ARM hardware-floating-point ports for other distributions, which
all have the same baseline. It is compatible with Debian armel
(armv4t, soft(emulated) FP), but floating-point tasks will be slow
when running the Debian armel port.
To do that, you can try to reinstall the packages by specifying the armel architecture, for example:
apt-get install r-base:armel
If it doesn't work this way, you can otherwise download the packages from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/wheezy-cran3/ and install them manually using a commandline like:
dpkg --install --force-architecture xxxx_armel.deb yyyy_armel.deb zzzz_armel.deb
The other solution would be to compile R from its source.
I solved my initial question by upgrading Wheezy to Jessie. I am not an expert, but Jessie seems to be the current testing version of Debian, while Wheezy is the stable release - see here.
For upgrading, I followed the instructions here, or here, or here. Note: Upgrading takes quite a while and during the process you're required to answer some questions.
A word of caution though: Jessie is still testing and some people recommend not to use it yet, for a discussion see e.g. here.
I did set it up completely from a new completely new image, and it works well.
After having upgraded to Jessie I installed R-3.1.1. using
sudo apt-get install r-base
And I'd like to thank all those who have answered my question and given alternative ways of solving the problem above.
I'm able to install R-3.1.2 into raspbian using answer from teramonagi. I confirm it can install successfully on Raspberry Pi model B/B+.
However, before you can actually use R (install packages and run some R scripts), you have to increase the swap file size for Raspberry Pi due to lack of RAM (This service works very similar to page file in window, it kicks in when RAM usage is high). You can configure it by edit one of the config file by enter command below in LX terminal.
sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile
CONF_SWAPSIZE=100 #(change 100 to 512 or 1024, up to you, save the file)
sudo /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile stop
sudo /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile start #(restart swap file service with new swap file size)
Take note though, some users argued that increase swap file size can actually ruin your SD card. So apply this change at your own risk. I've been running my Pi with this configuration for my R automation for 1 month now. No issue so far.
Hope this helps.
Edit: If you are using model B/B+, i recommend to configure swap file size first then compile R.
That's what I've done to update my r-base on wheezy:
HOW TO UPDATE r-base 2.15 to 3.x ON DEBIAN WHEEZY
add these lines at the end of "/etc/apt/sources.list"
deb http://cran.revolutionanalytics.com/bin/linux/debian wheezy-cran3/
deb-src http://cran.revolutionanalytics.com/bin/linux/debian wheezy-cran3/
add the missing publich key of cran
gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key 06F90DE5381BA480
gpg -a --export 06F90DE5381BA480 | sudo apt-key add -
update and upgrade
apt-get update
aptitude -t wheezy-cran3 install r-base r-base-dev
I want to install R on my Red hat cluster which has the version below:
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
When I went to R's homepage and this is what in their repository:
I am wondering there is only redhat version 4 and 5 there and I don't know which version will best fit my operating system.
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Since I have asked more than 6 questions today. Stackoverflow doesn't like me to ask more questions. So I will put the following questions into this question, sorry about that.
Hi, I was trying to use Expect to automatically log into a remote server and install R.
When I install R, they came up with all kinds of prompts asking 'The package will take xx MB Is that OK with you'?
The command to install:
su -c 'yum install R R-core R-core-devel R-devel'
You need to type in Yes for a few times to finish the installation.
My question is:
Is there a flag for yum install that you can tell the machine to install everything I want you to install. Don't ask me. So I can install those four packages without any prompt.
If that is hard to install in the 'quiet mode', how to write a while loop in Expect so it will send the Y automatically:
Pseudo Code Not Working!
send -- "sudo su -c yum install ...."
while ("Expect '*Is it OK [Y/N]*'"){
send 'Y\r'
# if (expect 'user$')
{break}
}
Thanks a lot in advance.
This is likely due to there being R RPMs in the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repos for RHEL6. You can find out more about EPEL on the Fedora website.
You need to configure yum to use EPEL. The easiest way to do this is to install the epel-release package for your platform, eg
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm'
or
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm'
for example. The you can use yum to install R, e.g. you will probably want
su -c 'yum install R R-core R-core-devel R-devel'
so that you pull in the packages needed to build other add-on packages as most CRAN package are not in EPEL.
At the moment, the latest version of R in EPEL is 3.0.1, so one patch release point behind the latest version 3.0.2.