Statistics Program R installed, does not run

[Steff260]

Wanted to install the statistics program R see here: https://ftp.fau.de/cran/

outcome

no error message; icon available in menu, nothing happens when clicked, no error message, program r can be found in the USR folder, as well as in the synaptic package manager, there you can see that about 400 packages of r were not installed, but only a few

question

How can I get the program R to run?

How do I install programs in LITE that are not in the package manager?

[UltraCookie]

Have you tried opening a terminal with ctrl+alt+t and just typing

Code:

R

Or you could download the GUI program RStudio from:
https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download
Download the ubuntu/debian 32-bit .deb package and execute it. You can than start it from the main menu.