[R-sig-Debian] Fwd: Running R from terminal in ubuntu 16.04 gives Fatal Error message

[George N. White III]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 17:32, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 15 February 2019 at 16:17, Behnoosh Zamanlooy wrote:
> | I just installed R 3.4.4 and Rstudio on my computer with the OS Ubuntu
> | 16.04. Rstudio detects the Installation of R and works normally.
>
> That would mean R works. RStudio "just" calls the R on your system.
>
> | However, trying to run R in the terminal I get this error:
> |
> | *Fatal error: unable to open the base package*
>
> This is in conflict with the statement above.
>
> | I have trying setting the R_HOME using:
> |
> | *export R_HOME=/usr/lib/R*
> |
> | However it did not work. Any idea how to resolve this?
>
> We need to know more about your installation ...
>
> | Ps. I have used r-bloggers
> | <https://www.r-bloggers.com/how-to-install-r-ubuntu-16-04-xenial/>, the
> | "Add R Repository" version to install R.
>
> ... and I am not familiar with that article. We generally recommend to
> follow
> the README at CRAN and its mirrors:
>    https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
>
>
The r-bloggers article refers to http://cran.rstudio.com, which appears to
be a
cran mirror.  The article provides the '0xe084dab9' short key and fails to
mention the above README document with information about the
duplicate "Totally legit: short key.


> | Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Start with showing us the output from the of
>
>    apt-cache policy r-base-core
>

also the output of "which R" in case there is some other program called 'R'.

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George N. White III

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