Good evenings. I am a novice in R and I have a big problem updating and 
installing packages inside R in Ubuntu 10.10  I followed the instructions in 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ :

*Added a new repository in Ubuntu : http://cran-r.c3sl.ufpr.br/bin/linux/ubuntu 
maverick/
*update the r-base and r-base-dev packages
*Enter R with "sudo"

The R version is right [R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25)] but commands in the R 
console like 'install.packages("pwr")' or install.packages("agricolae") fail 
with the message "*** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R 
terminated" and a long backtrace and memory map in both cases.
I tought that the reason was because the above packages are not kept up-to-date 
like r-cran packages, but I type the 'update.packages()' command with the 
supported packages and the "buffer overflow"backtrace-memory-map message appears 
again in the 13 updates of the supported packages (like boot, nlme, lattice, 
etc).
This messages appear only in the newer versions of R in my machine, I even 
uninstalled those versions of R (2.12.x or 2.11.x) before because of this 
problems. But now, with my update of Ubuntu from 10.04 to 10.10 that's no longer 
an option and I evaded this problem long enough and is time to face it... but I 
need your help with that, because I have no idea how to solve this: my method of 
uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times it didn't work.
Thanks in advance for your advice.



      
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