R-Analytics

This article was updated on July 7 2018. Before installing anything I signed up on https://github.com/ and created my R-ANALYTICS repository: https://github.com/LaranIkal/R-ANALYTICS Now the installation and setup. 1. I installed git on Ubuntu, from a terminal window: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install git 2.- I configured git: I did this through the git config command. I provided my name and email address because git embeds this information into each commit. Open a terminal and run: $ git config --global user.name "Your Name" --> This is part of your link: https://github.com/LaranIkal, you see, my name is LaranIkal $ git config --global user.email "youremail@domain.com" To see all of the configuration items just type: $ git config --list As a note, it is saved to a file called ~/.gitconfig in your home folder. Steps In Rstudio: 1.- Checking/Setting Rstudio right configuration to u...

Installing our R development environment on Ubuntu 16.04 And Elementary OS 0.4.1 As the first blog entry I thought it would be a good starting point describing how to setup a development environment on my preferred Linux distro - Ubuntu, in this case I am using LTS 16.04. This article was created on March/16/2018 and updated on July/5/2018 to include installation on Elementary OS 0.4.1 - Loki. Yes, I am using Elementary OS now. Note. One important thing to remember is that Elementary OS 0.4.1 is based on Ubuntu LTS 16.04 so, they are mostly compatible. There are some things different but it is minimum. The good thing about Elementary OS desktop is that, it is very fast, responsive and it is still supported by Elementary developers. Note1. At the moment of updating this article, the new Elementary OS 0.5.0 was still on beta 1: Elementary OS  0. 5.0 Developer Preview: Juno Beta 1 Note. For Elementary, it is needed to install an additional package called gdebi, it is a sim...