[R] problem installing R in Ubuntu 10.04 -HELP

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 02/22/2011 10:49 AM, Graham Williams wrote:
> I have seen this issue reported by others though I don't know what the
> root cause is. Others have solved it by removing the .Rdata file
> causing the problem (there must be one if it says so). It would
> usually, I think, be in the folder where you start R.

Does R start with

R --vanilla

If yes, check for .RData, and the other files loaded when starting R

?.First

shoud give you an idea which files they are and where they are stored.

Also:

try

locate Rdata

to locate all Rdata files.

Cheers,

Rainer

> 
> Regards,
> Graham
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 20 February 2011 13:19, fdp <fdp2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am running Ubuntu 10.04 (on a Windows machine with dual boot) and I having
>> a very hard time trying to recover from what I initially thought was a minor
>> problem. I was trying to install "rattle()" and it failed, and after that I
>> cannot get R to run AT ALL! I've tried multiple times to reinstall it with a
>> clean apt-get removal and install and nothing... I keep get the following
>> message:
>>
>> *Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rattle'
>> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
>> *
>> I've tried to remove all ".RData" files, but couldn't find many... I even
>> remove all R files/directories/config-files and still nothing worked.
>>
>> Has anyone encounter something like this? ANYTHING HELPS!!!
>>
>> Thanks a lot...
>> fdp
>>
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