I’m pretty new here, starting mining studies in the UNB (Universidade de Brasília - Brazil) Masters course.
My teacher (Rommel) demanded Exploratory.io usage, but unfortunately using Windows or MacOS is not an option for me.
Do you have any hints on how to make it run on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bits? E.g.: Wine, PlayonLinux?
Or maybe what Windows components (e.g.: DotNet etc.) are Exploratory.io requirements?
We are planning to support Linux version as well, but we haven’t been able to allocate our time for it given other priorities right now. Just wanted to ask though, if we give you a basic version of Linux would you be able to help us by testing it out?
Thank you for your answer and for the proposal.
Yes: if you send me the Linux version I’ll be glad to generate install and configuration steps for Ubuntu; debug messages and even posting it in your bug tracker system, if desired.
I almost reply to this topic today, but I don’t want to look like I’m rushing you! Just take your time.
I’m no developer but I have lots of experience building application from source (mostly C/C++). If you need some help in this matter, I would be glad to sign a NDA in order to try.
Hi Heitor,
Thank you for offering to test out the Linux version.
Now, we have first cut of our still-unofficial Linux version of Exploratory Desktop.
Here is instruction on installation.
Install following required software/libraries.
git, libssl-dev, libpq-dev, libxml2-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, libsodium-dev, libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev, libsasl2-dev
I prepared a shell script to install them. http://download2.exploratory.io/linux/install_libraries.sh
Create a directory .exploratory/R/3.3 under your home directory cd mkdir .exploratory mkdir .exploratory/R mkdir .exploratory/R/3.3
Install required R packages for Exploratory after specifying the above directory as lib path.
I prepared an R script to specify lib path and install them. (Please replace the home directory name with yours.) http://download2.exploratory.io/linux/install.R
Thanks very much for this great work. I just started to deploy the software!
Btw: I think you can replace steps 2-5, for this script:
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# Exploratory 1.9 Linux Ubuntu 16.04 Unsupported Install Script. Run with ordinary user!
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev git libssl-dev libpq-dev libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libsodium-dev libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev libsasl2-dev
mkdir ~/.exploratory
mkdir ~/.exploratory/R
mkdir ~/.exploratory/R/3.3
cd ~/.exploratory/ http://download2.exploratory.io/linux/install.R
chmod o+rx ./install.R
# This line bellow would be better to change in the install.R script (satisfies need for R repo specification):
sed -i ‘s/dependencies=TRUE/dependencies=TRUE, repos=“http://cran.rstudio.com/”/g’ ./install.R
sed -i s/your_os_username/$USER/g ./install.R
Rscript ./install.R
wget -T 3 http://download2.exploratory.io/linux/Exploratory_1.9.0.1_LINUX.zip
unzip Exploratory_1.9.0.1_LINUX.zip
PATH=$PATH:~/.exploratory/Exploratory/
echo “Exploratory.io Install is done. Type Exploratory from the Terminal to start the app.”
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Hi Heitor,
Thank you for the update and your script! I will update the script with your additions/corrections.
Happy to see that you were able to start Exploratory Desktop pretty quickly!
-Hideaki
Run the install script. source install.sh
It installs r-base r-base-dev git libssl-dev libpq-dev libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libsodium-dev libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev libsasl2-dev, and required R packages, and Exploratory itself.
Start installed Exploratory Desktop Exploratory
Login form will open up. Type in your exploratory.io username/password.
You will see Project List screen of Exploratory, where you can create new project at this point.
We just upgraded this Linux version of Exploratory to the latest 2.5.0.0!
Here is Installation/Upgrade instruction. Enjoy your data exploration!
If you have existing installation at ~/Exploratory, remove it. (This is only executables of Exploratory. Your repository where your data/visualizations/analysis steps are stored at ~/.exploratory. Please do not remove that one.) rm -rf ~/Exploratory
Run the install script. source install.sh
It installs r-base r-base-dev git libssl-dev libpq-dev libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libsodium-dev libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev libsasl2-dev, and required R packages, and Exploratory itself.
Login form will open up. Type in your exploratory.io username/password.
You will see Project List screen of Exploratory, where you can create new project at this point.
One limitation is support for data sources that require OAuth, like twitter etc.
Those data sources will not appear on the data source list of this linux version.