As nearly always, when one wants to do something in Linux, it becomes a test of both intelligence and patience. Mostly the latter. In this case I had installed the newest Mint on my new laptop, Mint 17. Then I set out to install R. Since this language's name is but a single letter, it is not so easy to search for solutions. The first question is what the linux program is called. r-base, it turns out. However, to install it, one needs to add the CRAN mirror to the repository list (sources.list file in etc/apt/). But their website is not very helpful because they don't give any examples, just write "http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu utopic/". And if one chooses the CRAN mirror in DK, the URL is "http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/". However, adding "http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu utopic/" does not work. Apparently, one has to know that one must remove the "/cran" part of the URL first. In any case, I ended up using "deb http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu utopic/" which works except that it gives errors about the lack of a public key (apparently not important).
Installing R on Mint 17
Installing R on Mint 17
Installing R on Mint 17
As nearly always, when one wants to do something in Linux, it becomes a test of both intelligence and patience. Mostly the latter. In this case I had installed the newest Mint on my new laptop, Mint 17. Then I set out to install R. Since this language's name is but a single letter, it is not so easy to search for solutions. The first question is what the linux program is called. r-base, it turns out. However, to install it, one needs to add the CRAN mirror to the repository list (sources.list file in etc/apt/). But their website is not very helpful because they don't give any examples, just write "http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu utopic/". And if one chooses the CRAN mirror in DK, the URL is "http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/". However, adding "http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu utopic/" does not work. Apparently, one has to know that one must remove the "/cran" part of the URL first. In any case, I ended up using "deb http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu utopic/" which works except that it gives errors about the lack of a public key (apparently not important).