[R] package installation problem

[Uwe Ligges]

I guess either R has not been installed properly, or you have two (or 
more) versions of R lying around...

Uwe Ligges


MJK wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running R-1.9.1 and I'm unable to succesfully
> install packages using either 'R CMD INSTALL
> xxx.tar.gz' or 'install.packages("xxx").
> 
> For example, if I try to install the msm package I
> get:
> 
> R CMD INSTALL msm_0.4.1.tar.gz
> * Installing *source* package 'msm' ...
> ERROR: R_HOME ('/root/R-1.9.1') not found
> ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed
> ** Removing '/usr/share/R-1.9.1/library/msm'
> 
> In R I get:
> 
>>install.packages("msm")
> 
> ... messages confirming succesful download are given
> here ...
> 
> WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
> /root/R-1.9.1/bin/Rcmd: /root/R-1.9.1/bin/Rcmd: No
> such file or directory
> 
> Delete downloaded files (y/N)?
> 
> As you can see, R is under /usr/share/R-1.9.1 on my
> Slackware 9.1 Linux system. 
> 
> paste(file.path(R.home(),"bin","R")) gives me
> "/usr/share/R-1.9.1/bin/R" and Sys.getenv("R_HOME")
> gives me "/usr/share/R-1.9.1" as does 'R RHOME'.
> Everything seems fine, but I do not understand why
> it's trying to look for /root/R-1.9.1? How do I solve
> this problem?
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> Maarten-Jan Kallen
> Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and
> Computer Science
> Delft University of Technology
> Delft, the Netherlands
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html