[R] Problem installing packages

[DEEPANKAR BASU]

Thanks Dirk, that worked.

$ sudo apt-get install r-base-dev r-cran-tseries

Deepankar


----- Original Message -----
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:32 pm
Subject: Re: [R] Problem installing packages

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:19:37PM -0400, Deepankar Basu wrote:
> > 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
> 
> As I suspected:
> 
>  $ sudo apt-get install r-base-dev r-cran-tseries.
>  
> Try that.  
> 
> > Since my R installation is broken, my questions are: 
> 
> Not so fast. Vincent works hard to provide good backports. It may
> merely be incomplete.
> 
> Also consider subscribing to r-sig-debian list for Debian/Ubuntu
> questions.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> > (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 '????grid????' is not available
> > > >
> > > > How should I proceed?
> > > >
> > > > Deepankar
> > > >
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> > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible 
> code.> > >
> > >
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