[R] R interpreter not recognized

[Stefan Evert]

Dear Maria,

this is quite probably my faul, in some way.  The UCS software has  
been abandoned a bit recently, as I'm planning to rewrite it into a  
pure R package.  On the other hand, I still use the software  
occasionally, so it should work with recent R versions.

> I am trying to install a program based on R, but I am receiving the
> following error message:
> root at darkstar:/home/maria/UCS# perl System/Install.perl
> Error: Can't run the R interpreter (/usr/local/bin/R).
> Please make sure that R is installed and specify the fully qualified
> filename of the R interpreter with -R if necessary (see "doc/ 
> install.txt").

This either means that your R installation is damaged and Install.perl  
can't run the command "R --version"; or that it has problems parsing  
the output of this command, so it thinks there's something wrong with R.

What do you get if you type

	/usr/local/bin/R --version

in a shell window?

Which version of UCS are you trying to install?  The message printed  
by "R --version" was changed some time ago (in early 2006, or so), so  
the Install.perl script stopped working at that time.  You need to  
download UCS-0.5-prerelease, which works for me (version 0.4 will not).

If you still can't get it to work, please contact me off-list so we  
can figure out the problem.

Cheers,
Stefan



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