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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 19 February 2019 at 14:12, Behnoosh Zamanlooy wrote:
| Th output to which R :
| /home/bzamanlooy/anaconda3/bin/R

And that is may be our culprit. You never told you were mixing Ubuntu's R and
R from Anaconda.  This is likely your issue.

I don't use Anaconda myself, and this list is about helping you with the
Ubuntu and Debian versions, including our backport.  We can help with that.
So for now I suggest 'hiding' anaconda -- maybe via

   cd; mv anaconda HIDDENanaconda

and then trying R and RStudio.

Good luck,  Dirk
 
| The output to R --version:
| R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30) -- "Kite-Eating Tree"
| Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
| Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
| 
| R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
| GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3.
| For more information about these matters see
| http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
| 
| Do these look okay?
| 
| On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:01 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:
| 
| >
| > 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
| > | >
| >
| > --
| > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org
| >

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