[R-sig-Debian] package XML does not load in R 2.15.1

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 21 July 2012 at 09:00, John Kane wrote:
| I am makingmy life too complicated?
| 
| I must be misunderstanding something
| 
| john at john-K53U:~$ dpkg -s r-cran-xml
| Package `r-cran-xml' is not installed and no info is available.
| Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
| and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

"dpkg -s" reports the status of __installed packages__ so you are little
circular here.  It only reports that you don't have it installed.

Try to search for packages via e.g.  "apt-cache search r-cran-"
 
| Should I be installing this rather than the XML package (which seems to be installed.

Well as you failed to install from source on your own, installing a
ready-made binary would seem easier to me, but it is your call.

Dirk

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