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I need to install Revolution R on a Debian Jessie (version 8, 64-bit).

On my system there is already installed R 3.1.1 and Rstudio.

The Revolution download page give me three installation package for Ubuntu: 12, 14, 15 (older LTS, current LTS, current version). Rstudio package give instead a single package for both Ubuntu 12.04+ and Debian 8+ (32 and 64-bit versions).

There is a way to understand what is the right package to install?

EDIT: I see from the community group that Debian is not officially supported, but should be OK using an Ubuntu packages.

Alessandro Trinca Tornidor
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It seems OK to install Revolution R on Debian Jessie.

Some precautions:

  • On my system there is libjpeg8 as missing dependency. To avoid this, I installed from testing repository.

    1. I tried to install the package using gdebi to install and resolve all necessary dependencies.

    2. libjpeg8 is missing from stable repository, so I take it from testing repository, protecting other packages with pinning preferences:

      sudo printf "# testing\ndeb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo vim /etc/apt/preferences
# old
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable
Pin-Priority: 980

Package: *
Pin: release a=jessie-backports
Pin-Priority: 900

# new 
Package: libjpeg8 
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stretch 
Pin-Priority: 990

    Note: The installed package is the libjpeg8:i386 version.

  • the installation process of Revolution R erases the original R and Rscript executables, so in my opinion it's better backup them (as root or using sudo):

    sudo cp -i /usr/bin/Rscript /usr/bin/Rscript-original
sudo cp -i /usr/bin/R /usr/bin/R-original

  • Just in case you need to restore the original R and Rstudio executables without a backup, should be enough to reinstall the r-base-core package:

    sudo apt-get --reinstall install r-base-core -V

  • using Revolution R with Rstudio should be fine. However if you would use a custom version of R (the original one, e.g.) with Rstudio it's possible to follow these instructions:

    export RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/usr/bin/R-original
echo "export RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/usr/bin/R-original" >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile
# logout and login again to use this profile also outside the bash
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  • Thanks, this is indeed the only solution I found. Have to mention that I have tried with Ubuntu 15 version and worked. Also have to install libjpeg8 as showed, but run an apt-get update after step 2. Then to install the package use gdebi MRO-3.2.3-Ubuntu-15.4.x86_64.deb – Javier Giovannini Mar 01 '16 at 22:15