Installing Bio3d on Ubuntu 14.04

[Lars Skjærven]

User says:

I thought I would like to give Bio3D a whirl on my Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit machine. Your installation instructions seem straightforward. BUT Synaptic offers R-base 3.0.2 as its "latest version" for Ubuntu 14.04.

Two comments: 1) Running install.packages from within R3.0.2 explicitly states that bio3d is not compatible with 3.0.2. 2) I would prefer to install from the deb package for r-base-3.1.3, for the simple reason that I tend to get in trouble when I independently install software that's already installed under the apt-package manager.

Is there any way around this conundrum?

[Lars Skjærven]

The installation instructions were written for the latest Ubuntu release (14.10). I did the following to update R on my newly installed Ubuntu 14.04 (instructions from http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/06/install-r-base-3-1-0-ubuntu-14-04/):

sudo apt-get remove r-base-core
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

  (add entry: "deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/")

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9
gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install r-base

This gave me R version 3.1.3, and I could proceed with the instructions on the bio3d web site.