Installing R-Studio in Debian

[Jared]

I just spend several hours trying to figure out how to install R-Studio in a build of Debian Linux and having a heck of a time getting it to work. I kept getting the error:

error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

I finally figured out that the issue is with the build of Linux only having the 64bit version of this font library configuration package. So to fix the issue I just had to run this command:

sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1:i386

Which added the 32bit version in and now it works beautifully.

Hope this helps to save someone else three hours.

 

[pclab]

Great eheheheh
But R-Studio for Linux only works with Linux File Systems... No NTFS, FAT, etc...

 

[Jared]

No, it's the full program and works on all the same file systems as the Windows version does. It's essentially the same program.

 

[jol]

thanks for the info

 

[pclab]

Ah, so you are installing the "normal" windows version in Linux?
Or the Linux version? Because I have tried before, and I think it only worked with HFS...

 

[Alt-RTT]

R-Studio for Linux (not to be confused with our free R-Linux!) has almost the same features as R-Studio for Windows has. The difference is that the previewer in R-Studio for Linux supports less file formats. And there're both 32-bit and 64-bit versions for .deb and .rpm installers. R-Studio for Linux installers.

 

[Jared]

Ah, maybe that was my issue. Perhaps I should have installed the 64 bit version in the first place... live and learn.