dirk & bill, you guys are incredible! the non-silent .Rprofile was the problem! making the code interactive didn't help either, only silenceing it helped!
thanks so much! i assume moving to r-sig-debian is now obsolete. ps, @dirk: adding michael rutters ppa also helped, but the packages get installed to R_LIBS_SITE, and not (as i am used to) to R_LIBS-USER. but this was only a minor inconvinience (i like to keep the packages in one directory). thanks again! winfried Am Sa., 5. Jan. 2019 um 18:40 Uhr schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org >: > > On 5 January 2019 at 09:14, William Dunlap via R-help wrote: > | You would get these errors ("R: file or directory not found, version: > file > | or directory not found...") if you had a ~/.Rprofile file containing the > | line 'cat(version$version.string, sep="\n"). > > Well spotted -- very much so. That is bound to break use within > src/Makevars > and alike. If you must do something in ~/.Rprofile either make it silent, > or > make it conditional based on if (interactive()) { ...that_code_here... } > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.