[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu Lucid, R 2.14.2, and ggplot2

[Scott Smith]

I realize my last mail lacked an explicit question: Does anyone on this list know why this fails?

We have Ubuntu Linux on a large compute cluster at The Genome Institute, and I'm attempting to move people off of a bunch of privately managed R installations to a single dpkg-based one.  

My experience with cran2deb is at less than a week, so I hope you'll forgive my ignorance.  Any suggestions you have would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Scott

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Scott Smith
Manager, Application Programming and Development
Analysis Pipeline
The Genome Institute
Washington University School of Medicine

On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Scott Smith wrote:

> I've just updated to the latest R (2.14.2) on my Ubuntu Lucid box, and now the ggplot2 installed as a .deb package fails to work.
> 
> $ R -e 'library(ggplot2)'
> Error in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc) : 
>  package ‘proto’ does not have a NAMESPACE and should be re-installed
> Calls: library -> .getRequiredPackages2 -> library
> Execution halted
> 
> Here is what I did to ensure the packages were up-to-date:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-core r-cran-ggplot2 r-cran-proto
> 
> Here is what my sources list and dpkg list looks like:
> 
> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/r-cran.list 
> deb http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu lucid/
> 
> $ dpkg -l r-base r-base-core r-cran-ggplot2 r-cran-proto
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                      Version                   Description
> +++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
> ii  r-base                    2.14.2-3lucid0            GNU R statistical computation and graphics system
> ii  r-base-core               2.14.2-3lucid0            GNU R core of statistical computation and graphics system
> ii  r-cran-ggplot2            0.8.9-1cran1              GNU R package "An implementation of the Grammar of
> ii  r-cran-proto              0.3-9-1cran1              GNU R package "Prototype object-based programming"
> 
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