2.3 Installing Rattle on Linux
To install R on a Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux system you can run the command line
This will install R from the appropriate distribution repository.
Then to install the requisite R packages for the operating system
we can use the following apt command
sudo apt install r-cran-magrittr r-cran-tidyverse \
r-cran-vim r-cran-hmisc r-cran-mice r-cran-reshapeIf you don’t have admin access then you can run the R
install.packages command from Section 2.1 to install
the packages into your account.
You are then ready to install the Rattle software. Begin by downloading the rattleng-dev-linux.zip. You can do this by tapping on that link or else from the terminal command line:
This version was compiled on Ubuntu 20.04 and is known to run on Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Mint 21.3.
Then try it out by unzipping the zip archive locally, after downloading it:
Then run the executable:
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