R



Install & Configure
Install R from your preferred CRAN mirror.


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For a backport of the latest stable version of R to jessie, simply add something like

to the file /etc/apt/sources.list on your computer. You need to substitute  by one of the mirror URLs listed in the mirror list.

The Debian backports archives on CRAN are signed with the key of Johannes Ranke (CRAN Debian archive)  with key ID 381BA480. You can fetch and import this with

Then install the newest R release including recommended packages

You may want to install the automatically tuned Atlas or the multi-threaded OpenBlas library in order to get higher performance for linear algebra operations

The R packages part of r-base and r-recommended are installed into the directory /usr/lib/R/library. These can be updated using usual package maintenance tools like apt-get or aptitude.

The other R packages available as precompiled Debian packages r-cran-* and r-bioc-* are installed into /usr/lib/R/site-library

Finally install RStudio from and all the packages you need from the RStudio tool!

Check the Task Views and contribute to it:


 * CRAN Task View: Archaeological Science

PostgreSQL/PostGIS connection

 * R_PostGIS

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R

 * Roger S. Bivand, Edzer J. Pebesma and V. Gómez-Rubio. UseR! Series, Springer, 2008, 378 p., Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-78170-9

Fabric Analysis
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