[R] Failure of update.packages()

[Peter Dalgaard]

I M S White <iwhite at staffmail.ed.ac.uk> writes:

> 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).
> 
> ======================================
> I.White
> University of Edinburgh
> Ashworth Laboratories, West Mains Road
> Edinburgh EH9 3JT
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> E-mail: iwhite at staffmail.ed.ac.uk

You need to install the R-devel package too:

R-devel-2.0.1-0.fdr.2.fc3.i386.rpm 

The big idea is that this will suck in all the required compilers,
libraries, and include files via RPM dependencies, but users with
limited disk space may be content with the binaries of R+recommended
packages. 

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