[R-sig-Debian] Cannot install XML package with R 3.0 and Ubuntu 12.04

[Michael Rutter]

On 06/13/2013 03:41 PM, John Blischak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am unable to install the R package XML using R 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> (64-bit). After the installation failed using install.packages, I followed
> previous directions for installing R packages on Ubuntu
> (R-SIG-Debian<http://grokbase.com/t/r/r-sig-debian/127nwwez27/package-xml-does-not-load-in-r-2-15-1>,
> StackOverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7765429/unable-to-install-r-package-in-ubuntu-11-04>)
> by running sudo apt-get install r-cran-xml. However, this is not usable
> with R 3.0, and update.packages(oldpkgs = 'XML') failed as well. Lastly, it
> is not available on the RutteR
> PPA<https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter/+index?batch=75&direction=backwards&start=600>
> .
>
> Is there a way to solve this? Thanks in advance!
>
> John
>


John,

In about two hours (around 6:30 EDT), r-cran-xml should be available on 
c2d4u, my bigger PPA of R packages.  Here is the link: 
https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u.

For some reason, xml was one of the packages that didn't get updated in 
in the move to R 3.0. I have updated the new packages and they will take 
about two hours to build.

Hope that helps,
Michael



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