[R-sig-Debian] can't launch R after "installing" it

[Kevin Donnelly]

On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:38, Benilton Carvalho wrote:
> After an apparent successful installation of R (via sudo apt-get
> install r-base), her attempts of loading R (typing 'R' on the
> terminal) always return a message stating that it is not installed.

I think r-base is a "dummy" package to ease the transition to a smaller base 
install.  Can your friend try installing r-base-core and see what happens?

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Kevin Donnelly

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