
Thanks a llot.It seems that the system is clean after doing 'make uninstall',  and marking all 'R' packages for complete removal

> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:57:37 -0400
> From: mar36@psu.edu
> To: khoshgoftar@live.com
> CC: r-sig-debian@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Getting confused with two versions of Rşş
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> 
> 
> On 07/21/2011 02:49 PM, Alireza KhoshgoftarMonfared wrote:
> >
> > Hi there, I used to run R 2.10 on Ubunutu 10.04, and tried to install R 2.11 from the source at the same time.It seems that doing the second installation, I have messed up with some files or system paths, resulting in not being able to use either version of R on my system.
> > I get the following message in terminal, whenever I try to run R now:
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/R: line 227: /usr/local/lib/R/etc/ldpaths: No such file or directory/usr/local/bin/R: line 250: /usr/local/lib/R/bin/exec/R: No such file or directory/usr/local/bin/R: line 250: exec: /usr/local/lib/R/bin/exec/R: cannot execute: No such file or directory
> > I've tried to re-install R using apt-get doing:
> >
> > sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get remove r-base sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get install r-base
> > Although the installation seems to be successful, I get the same error above trying to run R.Any suggestions how I can clean up all the leftovers from the previous two installations, and get back to the r-base available in repository? Thanks,Alireza 		 	   		
> 
> Alireza,
> 
> If you installed from source, go back to the source directory and run 
> 'sudo make uninstall'.  Then I would use a GUI interface Synaptic to 
> make sure that all R related packages are removed.  Check to make sure 
> typing 'R' returns nothing.
> 
> Then I would use these instructions to install the latest version of R:
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
> 
> Michael
> 
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