Latest revision as of 21:10, 7 January 2013

This page is under construction. I'll try to documentate some R stuff related to Sabayon & Gentoo

[edit] What's R?

R is a programming language for statistical computing. Though R is used with a command line interface, there are several graphical ones available, too.

[edit] Installation

First become root with

su

and then install the current version (R-2.15 at time of this writing) running

equo install dev-lang/R-2

[edit] Installation of additional packages

There are no packages available through Gentoo/Sabayon, yet, so you have to install it via R itself. Say you want to install the package polynom. Start R as root and then run

install.packages("polynom")

You have to choose a server and then watch R downloading and installing the package. It's also possible to run this as "normal" user, but then it's not installed systemwide.

[edit] Usage

I recommend to read the "Further reading" links to get started.

[edit] GUIs

I just know these two.

• RKWard
• RStudio

Further ones can be found on Wikipedia (See section at the bottom).

[edit] Further Reading

• Official site: http://www.r-project.org/
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29
• R Wiki: http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php