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

[Manuel Morales]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:42 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:44 -0400, Manuel Morales wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 
> For both Scott and Manuel,
> 
> Can you post back with the output of:
> 
> > capabilities()
> 

This is what I got:
> capabilities()
    jpeg      png    tcltk      X11 http/ftp  sockets   libxml     fifo
    TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
  cledit  IEEE754    iconv
    TRUE     TRUE     TRUE

I recompiled after downloading the tc and tk development packages, which
gave tcltk as TRUE. update.packages() works if tcltk is enabled, but it
seems not to revert to the non-graphical interface otherwise...