[R] Problem installing packages

[Deepankar Basu]

While installing R (version 2.4.0) on my Dell desktop (Optiplex GX 270)
on a Ubuntu Linux platform, I had followed the advice contained in the
following link:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/README

Briefly, what I had done is the following:

I had added "deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/" to
my "/etc/apt/sources.list" and then did

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install r-base

Since my R installation is broken, my questions are: 

(1)should I re-install R as above or do I need to install manually? I
would of course prefer using apt-get. 

(2)should I also install the r-commended bundle? I did not do this last
time and as Peter has pointed out, this might have caused the problem.

Deepankar


On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 21:53 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 'grid' is an integral part of R, so this suggests your R installation is 
> broken.  (You could have found that out from the R FAQ Q5.1.1.)
> 
> You have told us very little (please study the posting guide), not 
> including which version of R and how you installed it.  Please try 
> reinstalling R, from the sources of R 2.5.0 RC if you can.
> 
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, 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 'ÿÿgridÿÿ' is not available
> >
> > How should I proceed?
> >
> > Deepankar
> >
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