[R] Problem with R-2.1.0: install.packages() doesn't work

[Manuel Morales]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:48 +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Waichler, Scott R wrote:
> 
> > I installed R-2.1.0 from source on a Linux box running Red Hat
> > Enterprise Linux WS release 4 but install.packages() wouldn't work (see
> > below).

> >>install.packages("rgenoud")
> > 
> > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> > Error in inherits(x, "factor") : Object "res" not found
> 
> 
> Quite probably you have no X11 connection to this machine.
> R tries to ask you which CRAN mirror you are going to choose, and it 
> fails to present the tcltk window.
> You might want to call
>    chooseCRANmirror(graphics=FALSE)
> and
>    setRepositories(graphics=FALSE)
> prior to install.packages().
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 

I have the same problem after building R-2.1.0 from source on Fedora
Core 3. The suggestion above fixes this, but what do you mean by "Quite
probably you have no X11 connection on this machine"? I'm guessing you
don't mean that X11 is not "running" (I use Gnome for my desktop).

Manuel