The new version of Ubuntu is out, (as if you haven’t heard that by now), so that means a fresh install to play about with and working just the way I want! 
One of the tools that I currently need (for the thesis work) is R and the BioConductor libraries. So here’s a quick run down on getting them up and installed on Hardy…
First up, run these commands in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install build-essential g77 gfortran
sudo apt-get install refblas3 refblas3-dev zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install r-base
This will then install the R base packages and some of the BioConductor packages, along with the gcc and fortran compilers and some other libraries that will be required for the next step.
sudo -s
R
Now at the R prompt, type the following…
source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite()
Now sit back for a few minutes while your system configures BioConductor for you.