I have followed the read me file. Forgive my ignorance of Debian but I get
messages like:

Couldn't stat source package list http://cran.wustl.edu etch-cran/ Packages

which is not particularly helpful to me. In addition the read me file
instructions "install as usual" are not helpful because I have not installed
as usual before. :)

Here is a very basic question for debian -- should I type:  apt-get install
pkgname or aptitude install pkgname. They seem to attempt to do the same
things but I get different results.

Thanks for your patience.


On 7/25/08, Vincent Goulet <vincent.goulet@act.ulaval.ca> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> I think most of your issues will be answered in the Debian README on CRAN:
>
>        http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
>
> I would recommend removing the version of R you compiled yourself and
> rather opt for the binaries provided on CRAN for etch by Johannes.
>
> HTH    Vincent
>
> Le ven. 25 juil. à 12:37, Michael Conklin a écrit :
>
>  I am new to Linux (not to R) and I am experimenting with a Linux machine
>> with Debian etch and the Gnome desktop environment installed. Since the
>> stable release has R2.4 I elected to build R from sources and was able to
>> successfully install R2.71.  I had some trouble installing some packages
>> (specifically the XML package) and saw advice on the list on how to
>> install
>> R binaries using aptitude.  Now, I apparently have 2 versions of R
>> installed
>> and depending on how I start R I get different versions. If I start R via
>> the Gnome menu I get R2.4 in a terminal window. If I type R in a terminal
>> window that I have opened I get R2.71.  In both cases R.home() shows the
>> same directory /usr/lib/R.  I seem to have a lot of trouble understanding
>> where things are and how to control profile files and start up options on
>> the Debian system.  Any advice would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Michael Conklin
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