R programming language?

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bitvast
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R programming language?

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I'd like to install the R programming language (http://www.r-project.org/) but haven't been able to find it in Gslapt, and compiling from source looks daunting. Maybe I'm just not putting the right name into Gslapt though...
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I managed to get it to appear in the list by searching for statistic (not "statistics", nor "Statistics" ...).
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The name of the package is "R". Searches in gslapt find matches for any matching substring, so if your search for "R" it shows everything that has an "r" somewhere in the name or description, so pretty much everything. You can scroll the list until you find it, it's alphabetical. Or, as mimosa advised, search for a string that you guess should show it, like "stat". Otherwise, it's easy to install using a terminal:

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sudo spi -i R
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Re: R programming language?

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Thanks guys!
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