[R] R-installation, linux red hat 7.1

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Jane Fridlyand <janef at stat.berkeley.edu> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I have 1.3.0 version on my linux redhat. I wanted to upgrade to 1.4.1
> using compiled rpm (R-base-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm and
> R-recommended-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm ) but made a mistake and used "-i"  option
> to rpm command instead of upgrade U. It was complaining about already
> having files with that name (from the previous version) in /usr/bin/R and
> /usr/lib/R so i went ahead and removed those directories. Then I made yet
> another very stupid mistake and this time used -U option without much
> thinking. So, basically right now it thinks that I have R installed
> whereas i don't and /usr/bin/R directories are empty. basically, i am
> unable to install R at this point and I am really at loss why it is
> thinking that the package is installed.  Any suggestion? I need to remove
> references to R but I am really at loss to where they are sitting ...


At that stage, I'd try 

rpm -i --force R-*-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm

[/usr/bin/R is not a directory, though. It's a shell script.]

You might also want to rpm -q to see if the system thinks you have two
versions of R installed, and if necessary rpm -e something.

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