R System

An R System is an open source Statistical Analysis System.

• Context:
  • It can execute an R program or an R interactive session (expressed in an R programming language).
  • It can be extended with an R Package.
  • It can be interacted with an R GUI, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29#Graphical_user_interfaces
  • It can operate in Unix, MS Windows and Mac OS.
• Example(s):
  • R v1.0.
  • R v2.13.
  • Rscript, a non-interactive shell-script system.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • SAS System.
  • MATLAB System.
  • Octave System.
• See: Data Mining System, Machine Learning System.

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References

• http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README
  • To install the complete R system, use
    

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install r-base

    Users who need to compile R packages from source [e.g. package maintainers, or anyone installing packages with install.packages()] should also install the r-base-dev package:

    sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

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