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Where can I install Rscript from? I need to run an R script from a php file using exec. However I need to install Rscript first.
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Run R scripts with RStudio in Ubuntu The most common way to use R is using RStudio, a great cross-platform open source IDE. You can install it using deb file in Ubuntu. Download the deb file from the link below. You'll have to scroll down a bit to locate the DEB files for Ubuntu.
Rscript is an R Interpreter which helps in the execution of R commands present in the script file. In this tutorial, we will learn basic syntax required to write R Script File and execute R Script File with Rscript command in Terminal / Console.
The main package for R is called r-base. For the scripting and command-line front-end see littler (or r-cran-littler in xenial (16.04LTS) and beyond):
sudo apt-get install littler
Search the ubuntu repositories. Have you checked the littler package?
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The answers posted so far are generally useful, but they don't directly answer the question. I recently had the same question and discovered there is no rscript binary for Ubuntu. The r binary itself is used to execute scripts in batch mode as opposed to the separate rscript binary that I was using in OS X.
It appears you may be able to get an rscript binary from other sources (see http://craig-russell.co.uk/2012/05/08/install-r-on-ubuntu.html#.UwKWzkJdW2Q for example), but I'm not sure why you would need that when simple running "r script.r" from the command line works just fine.
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