[PLUG] Program written in R

[Paul Heinlein]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> Once a long time ago I attempted to learn programming. I used a
> tutorial where the first instruction was to get the program to display
> "hello world" on the screen. I failed. I abandoned the effort.
>
> Today I need to run a program called R-Varb, written in R:
>
> http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~paolillo/projects/varbrul/rvarb/
>
> I have downloaded the program, which is a .bin file. Supposedly R
> programs can be run on any platform. Whether that is true for Hardy
> x86_64 is beyond my ken. A ".bin" file smells a lot of Windows. But
> what do I know? Until today I had never heard of the R programming
> language.
>
> I do have Windows 2000 running under Virtualbox, so that is a backup
> solution. It's just nasty to use Windows if I can get it running in
> Linux.

On Debian-esque systems, try installing the r-base package.

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