[R-sig-Debian] problems with Rcmdr on R-2.10.0 with Karmic Koala

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 23 November 2009 at 14:27, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
| Hi!
| 
| By using the "update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)" statement, I got rid of the MASS error.
| 
| I got the packages from the Berkeley CRAN repository.
| 
| But the Rcmdr menu screen is not appearing.  I think that there may be an issue with tcltk.

It's just a hunch: but by mixing packages and hand-compilation you may no
longer use all the library path entries. So 'your' R may not see the
libraries installed from 'our R' which use:

R> .libPaths()
[1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library"       "/usr/lib/R/library"           
R> 

Run available.packages() and see if you get what you were expecting. It may
of course be something different alltogether...

Hth, Dirk

| Thanks,
| Erin
| 
| 
| Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
| Associate Professor
| Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
| University of Houston - Downtown
| mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
| 
| 
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Michael Rutter [mailto:mar36 at psu.edu]
| Sent: Mon 11/23/2009 2:25 PM
| To: Hodgess, Erin
| Cc: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
| Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] problems with Rcmdr on R-2.10.0 with Karmic Koala
|  
| Erin,
| 
| I don't have a machine running Karmic yet (I have learned never to 
| update a linux distribution in the middle of the semester), so I can't 
| test this easily.  At what point are you getting the MASS error?
| 
| Also, are you using the ubuntu packages on CRAN or the ones that come 
| with Karmic in universe?
| 
| Michael
| 
| Hodgess, Erin wrote:
| > Dear R Debian People:
| > 
| > I have put this on regular R help as well, but thought that I'd try here too.
| > 
| > I updated to R-2.10.0 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala via apt-get update, apt-get install.
| > 
| > Then I had a problem that said that I need MASS <= R-2.9.2.  Fair enough.  Uwe Ligges was kind enough to point out that I needed to use 
| >> update.packges(checkBuilt=TRUE)
| > 
| > So I did.
| > 
| > Now the menu on Rcmdr does not appear.
| > 
| > Just as an experiment, I downloaded the R-2.10.0.tar.gz file and installed via ./configure, make, etc. and all is well there.
| > 
| > Any help would be much appreciated.
| > 
| > Thanks,
| > Sincerely,
| > Erin
| > 
| > 
| > Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
| > Associate Professor
| > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
| > University of Houston - Downtown
| > mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
| > 
| > 
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