I still have no idea what the problem was, except that some files did not
get created/installed during the install.  I installed a fresh version of
Ubuntu 13.10 64 bit and then R and now it seems to work fine!

Thanks

J


On 25 October 2013 13:55, Michael Rutter <mar36@psu.edu> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> What version of Ubuntu are you using?  Was this a fresh install or an
> upgrade?  This is the only report of this I have heard, so I need some more
> information.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 10/25/2013 08:41 AM, Jim Maas wrote:
>
>> I've just installed r-base (several times!) using the instructions at
>> http://cran.us.r-project.org/**bin/linux/ubuntu/<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?
>>
>> Thanks a bunch,
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Program Coordinator, Mathematics
> Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
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