[R-sig-Debian] Newbie Questions

[Vincent Goulet]

Le ven. 25 juil. à 13:56, Michael Conklin a écrit :

> I have followed the read me file.

I meant that mostly for the bottom part of the file, where the  
administration of the libraries is explained.

> Forgive my ignorance of Debian but I get messages like:
>
> Couldn't stat source package list http://cran.wustl.edu etch-cran/  
> Packages

What is your entry in the /etc/apt/sources.list file? It should be  
exactly as explained in the README, including any / (people often tend  
to forget the last one).

> which is not particularly helpful to me. In addition the read me  
> file instructions "install as usual" are not helpful because I have  
> not installed as usual before. :)
>
> Here is a very basic question for debian -- should I type:  apt-get  
> install pkgname or aptitude install pkgname. They seem to attempt to  
> do the same things but I get different results.

I don't use aptitute, but I think they do the same thing. The latter  
is just a front-end to apt-get.

> Thanks for your patience.

No problem, that's what this forum is for!

Vincent

>
>
> On 7/25/08, Vincent Goulet <vincent.goulet at act.ulaval.ca> wrote:  
> Michael,
>
> I think most of your issues will be answered in the Debian README on  
> CRAN:
>
>        http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
>
> I would recommend removing the version of R you compiled yourself  
> and rather opt for the binaries provided on CRAN for etch by Johannes.
>
> HTH    Vincent
>
> Le ven. 25 juil. à 12:37, Michael Conklin a écrit :
>
> I am new to Linux (not to R) and I am experimenting with a Linux  
> machine
> with Debian etch and the Gnome desktop environment installed. Since  
> the
> stable release has R2.4 I elected to build R from sources and was  
> able to
> successfully install R2.71.  I had some trouble installing some  
> packages
> (specifically the XML package) and saw advice on the list on how to  
> install
> R binaries using aptitude.  Now, I apparently have 2 versions of R  
> installed
> and depending on how I start R I get different versions. If I start  
> R via
> the Gnome menu I get R2.4 in a terminal window. If I type R in a  
> terminal
> window that I have opened I get R2.71.  In both cases R.home() shows  
> the
> same directory /usr/lib/R.  I seem to have a lot of trouble  
> understanding
> where things are and how to control profile files and start up  
> options on
> the Debian system.  Any advice would be most appreciated.
>
> Michael Conklin
>
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