Hi Dirk,

Thanks for your reply.

 | I am unable to install the R package XML using R 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04
> LTS
> | (64-bit). After the installation failed using install.packages, I
> followed
>
> You did not detail this sufficiently, but installation from _source_
> presumably failed because you did not have all the build-dependencies.
>
> In this case where are pre-build _binary_ exists, you can use the
> metainformation for the _binary_ package to build the _source_ package:
>
>     sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-xml
>

I apologize for not providing sufficient details. I am new to Ubuntu. Could
you please elaborate on how I could have obtained the information on the
build-dependencies that would have been helpful for diagnosing the problem?

>
> As I understand it, all these were fraught by the 'R packages from 2.15
> cannot run under 3.0 issue'; with the last one being a bug in Michael's
> setup
> he has since addressed.
>
> This was exactly the issue. Michael added the XML package to his PPA and
then I was able to install it with sudo apt-get install r-cran-xml.

Thanks,

John

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