[R] Hmisc and Ubuntu (aptitude install)

[Matthew Pettis]

Thank You All,

I think all of this may have been due to shared library conflict
headaches.  At one point, I inadvertently upgraded my Perl install to
5.10, and I think that messed up a lot of my libraries.  I have now
started with a clean Ubuntu install, and am going to see if I can work
my way back up to installing R and making that work.  I will recontact
the list if this problem persists through this reimaging of my server.

Thanks again,
Matt

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:48:12AM -0400, Vincent Goulet wrote:
>> Matthew,
>>
>> As per the CRAN Ubuntu README
>>
>>       http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>>
>> install the Ubuntu r-base-dev package to compile R packages from
>> sources.
>
> Well there should be a working r-cran-hmisc package.  You simply got a
> '404' error indicating that your network access (using http) to the
> external Ubuntu mirror was broken.   Fix that, or download the package
> by hand.  It may be easier to just install the missing package.
>
> That said, Vincent is of course entirely correct on the need for
> r-base-dev.
>
> Dirk
>
>>
>> Vincent
>>
>> Le lun. 22 sept. à 00:08, Matthew Pettis a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get the Hmisc module on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron install.
>>> I tried getting Hmisc from within R by issuing the standard
>>> 'install.packages' command, but it said I needed 'gfortran' to
>>> compile.  I thought I could circumvent this by using 'aptitude' to get
>>> the package 'r-cran-hmisc', but when I got it, the package had
>>> critical missing parts (got 404s).  So, I'll be trying to go back and
>>> download 'gfortran', but can anybody tell me if this aptitude ubuntu
>>> package should be kept up to date and is just currently overlooked?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matt
>>>
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It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are
broken that we come to repair the world.
-- Murray Waas