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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 19 February 2019 at 09:40, Behnoosh Zamanlooy wrote:
| I removed my r-base package and installed it through the guide in Cran
| mirror but I am still getting the same error. Here is the output to the
| command above:
| r-base-core:
|   Installed: 3.4.4-1xenial0
|   Candidate: 3.4.4-1xenial0
|   Version table:
|  *** 3.4.4-1xenial0 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

That looks fine and legit (assuming iu.edu is indeed a network-close mirror
to you, and in good shape).

What do

   which R                # or 'type -p R' if which fails for some reason
   R --version

say ?

Dirk

|      3.4.3-1xenial0 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.4.2-2xenial2 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.4.2-1xenial1 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.4.1-2xenial0 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.4.1-1xenial0 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.4.0-1xenial0 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.3.3-1xenial0 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.3.2-1xenial0 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.3.1-1xenial0 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.3.0-2xenial0 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.3.0-1xenial0 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.2.5-1xenial 500
|         500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
|      3.2.3-4 500
|         500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64
| Packages
| 
| 
| 
| 
| On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 4:32 PM 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
| >
| > | Any help would be much appreciated.
| >
| > Start with showing us the output from the of
| >
| >    apt-cache policy r-base-core
| >
| > Dirk
| >
| > --
| > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org
| >

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