[R] Hmisc and Ubuntu (aptitude install)

[Matthew Pettis]

Hi All,

After rebuilding my Ubuntu image, I followed the instruction in this
thread, and everything worked out fine -- thank you again.

So, I'll just add: if you use R and perl, and don't have to download
perl5.10, then don't do it, at least not yet.  Or, if you do, then you
will have a lot of shared object tweaking.

Matt

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Pettis
<matthew.pettis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>
>
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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