[R] Debian Rcmdr misses sem leaps etc

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Fri May 22 20:32:00 CEST 2015


For those R packages, as a normal user (rather than sysadmin of a shared computer) the OP should accept the default R/3.1 subdirectory in their home directory.
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On May 22, 2015 11:09:00 AM PDT, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>Dear Peter,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Peter
>> van Summeren
>> Sent: May-22-15 10:01 AM
>> To: .
>> Subject: [R] Debian Rcmdr misses sem leaps etc
>> 
>> Hello,when I start up Rcmdr under Jessie Debian I get the message
>that
>> there are packages missing:sem, markdown, leaps, knitr, aplpackIt
>then
>> wants to get these from cran. But first I have to tell where to put
>> them: I HAVE NO IDEA.I downloaded Rcmdr via a package program.Can
>anyone
>> help me to get a good Rcmdr?with friendly greetings,Peter
>
>I don't use Debian myself, but have you tried simply clicking the OK
>button
>in the dialog box for installing the missing packages? Perhaps you've
>done
>that and are then asked where to install the packages, but if so that's
>unclear from your message. More generally, it would help to have more
>detail
>about what you did.
>
>A bit of background: There are two package systems, one for Debian,
>which
>includes R, the Rcmdr package, and some other R packages (such as the
>car
>package) used by the R Commander, and the CRAN R package archive. Most
>of
>the R packages that the Rcmdr uses reside in the latter archive. If
>these
>are missing, the R Commander detects that and asks your permission to
>install them. As I said, simply clicking OK should work (as far as I
>know).
>
>I'm cc'ing Dirk Eddelbuettel, who takes care of the R Debian packages.
>
>I hope this helps,
> John
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>John Fox, Professor
>McMaster University
>Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
>http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
>
>
>
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