[R] No "doc" directory in my installation of R.

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

R 4.1.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.
My ls command on /usr/lib/R on my home computer gives what Rolf posted, 
so I agree with every body that this is not an R issue and would insist 
with RStudio and ask for their help again. They are generally helpful, btw.

I follow installation instructions to the letter and have never had any 
problems like this one. If the installation of R seems OK, have you 
tried to uninstall and reinstall RStudio?


rui using rui:~$ ls /usr/lib/R
bin  COPYING  etc  lib  library  modules  site-library  SVN-REVISION
rui using rui:~$ ls /usr/share/R
debian  doc  include  share


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas


Às 14:15 de 08/08/21, Duncan Murdoch escreveu:
> Jeff pointed out where the doc directory is installed in Ubuntu: 
> /usr/share/R/doc.  So this is definitely an RStudio issue:  perhaps it 
> got "tweaked", or perhaps Rolf installed a version meant for some other 
> distribution.  In either case, off-topic in R-help, I think.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> On 08/08/2021 8:51 a.m., John Kane wrote:
>> R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
>> RStudio 1.4.1714
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
>>
>> I do not see a doc folder at R level but a lot of newer packages,
>> probably tidyverse derived seem to have a doc sub-folder containing
>> documentation files
>>
>> For example corrplot has a doc subfolder containing
>> corrplot-intro.html
>> corrplot-intro.R
>> corrplot-intro.Rmd
>> index.html
>>
>> Jim Lemon's suggestion seems worth trying but I really think this is
>> some RStudio weirdity. I have been using RStudio for 3-4 years and a
>> several complete installations on new machines and tave never seen
>> anything like "R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found".
>>
>> RStudio keeps getting tweaked.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 8 Aug 2021 at 00:30, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Rolf,
>>> What about:
>>>
>>> mkdir /usr/lib/R/doc
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 12:45 PM Rolf Turner <r.turner using auckland.ac.nz> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Should/shouldn't there be one?
>>>>
>>>> My R seems to be installed in /usr/lib/R.  If do an "ls" of this
>>>> directory, I get:
>>>>
>>>>> bin/  COPYING@        etc/  lib/  library/  modules/
>>>>> site-library/  SVN-REVISION
>>>>
>>>> Definitely no "doc".
>>>>
>>>> The (only) reason that I am concerned about this, is that I have 
>>>> decided
>>>> to experiment a bit with Rstudio, and it apparently wants a "doc"
>>>> directory.  When I try to start Rstudio I get a pop-up window with the
>>>> error message
>>>>
>>>>> R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found.
>>>>
>>>> Note that /usr/local/lib64/R is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/R.
>>>> The latter is where my installation put R; the former seems to be where
>>>> Rstudio wants it to.  So I created the symbolic link.
>>>>
>>>> The discrepancy between locations is another puzzle/worry.
>>>>
>>>> My installation comes from a pre-built binary ("sudo apt install
>>>> r-base").  I apparently have the latest version.  I remark that I am
>>>> running Ubuntu 20.04 with a Mate 1.20.4 desktop.
>>>>
>>>> How can I get a "doc" directory into my R directory and make Rstudio
>>>> happy?
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Rolf Turner
>>>>
>>>> P.S. I have also tried to ask about this on the  Rstudio community
>>>> forum, but it seems to me to more of an R question than an Rstudio one.
>>>>
>>>> R. T.
>>>>
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>>>> Department of Statistics
>>>> University of Auckland
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