[R] Problem installing packages

[Peter Dalgaard]

Deepankar Basu wrote:
> I tried to install the package "tseries" but could not do so. Any
> suggestions are welcome. I am using Ubuntu Linux and here is what I did:
>
> $ sudo R
>  
> Then once in R, I did
>
>   
>> install.packages("tseries", dep=TRUE)
>>     
>
> which gave a long list of errors. Going through them, I saw that the
> basic problem was that the package "grid" was not found by the packages
> (like "lattice", "Hmisc", etc.) that were part of the dependencies for
> "tseries". So, I tried installing the package "grid" but could not. Here
> is what I did (and the result):
>
> $ sudo R
>
> Once in R, I did
>
>   
>> install.packages("grid", dep=TRUE)
>>     
>
> And this is what I got as error message
>
> Warning in install.packages("grid", dep = TRUE) :
>          argument 'lib' is missing: using /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> dependency '‘grid’' is not available
>
> How should I proceed?
>   
I think this is Dirk's way of shooting you in the foot... Debian/Ubuntu 
has a split between packages r-base and r-recommended, which is not The 
Intended Way of doing things. If you don't install r-recommended, things 
like the above are liable to happen.