[R] Failure of update.packages()

I M S White iwhite at staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Thu Feb 10 13:23:03 CET 2005


Can anyone explain why with latest version of R (2.0.1) on FC3, installed
from R-2.0.1-0.fdr.2.fc3.i386.rpm, update.packages() produces the message

/usr/lib/R/bin/Rcmd exec: INSTALL: not found.

Indeed /usr/lib/R/bin seems to lack various shell scripts (INSTALL,
REMOVE, etc).

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