Installing R and Updating Packages (with sed and Perl fun)
Submitted by lev_lafayette on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 00:20R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. To install R download the tarball to an appropriate place and extract e.g.,
cd /usr/local/SRC/R
wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.11.1.tar.gz
tar xvf R-2.11.1.tar.gz