Its a new install of Ubuntu 13.10, 64 bit version.

Thanks

J


On 25 October 2013 13:54, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 25 October 2013 at 13:41, Jim Maas wrote:
> | I've just installed r-base (several times!) using the instructions at
> | http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
> |
> | and for some reason it is not creating a /etc/R/ldpaths file.
> |
> | I've tried a few times, tried purging, and removing everything in
> | /etc/R    and
> | /usr/lib/R
> |
> | as suggested by Dirk,
> |
> | and reinstalling but still get
> |
> | $ R
> | /usr/bin/R: line 236: /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths: No such file or directory
> |
> | R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing"
> | Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> | Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> |
> |
> | and then cannot install packages.
> |
> | I tried manually creating the file /etc/R/ldpaths and it got rid of the
> | error when loading R, but would still not install packages.
> |
> | Something is not loading/installing correctly for latest version.  Can
> | anyone help diagnose and fix?
>
> No, we cannot as you didn't even tell us which version os Ubuntu you used.
>
> This works for _a lot_ of people. It also works in countless unattended
> installs (as eg on Debian, Launchpad, Travis, ... to build or test
> packages)
> so "something" is different at your end. But from the information supplied
> we
> cannot possibly tell what it may be.
>
> Sorry, Dirk
>
> --
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>



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