While installing R (version 2.4.0) on my Dell desktop (Optiplex GX 270) on a Ubuntu Linux platform, I had followed the advice contained in the following link: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/README
Briefly, what I had done is the following: I had added "deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/" to my "/etc/apt/sources.list" and then did $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get install r-base Since my R installation is broken, my questions are: (1)should I re-install R as above or do I need to install manually? I would of course prefer using apt-get. (2)should I also install the r-commended bundle? I did not do this last time and as Peter has pointed out, this might have caused the problem. Deepankar On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 21:53 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > 'grid' is an integral part of R, so this suggests your R installation is > broken. (You could have found that out from the R FAQ Q5.1.1.) > > You have told us very little (please study the posting guide), not > including which version of R and how you installed it. Please try > reinstalling R, from the sources of R 2.5.0 RC if you can. > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Deepankar Basu wrote: > > > I tried to install the package "tseries" but could not do so. Any > > suggestions are welcome. I am using Ubuntu Linux and here is what I did: > > > > $ sudo R > > > > Then once in R, I did > > > >> install.packages("tseries", dep=TRUE) > > > > which gave a long list of errors. Going through them, I saw that the > > basic problem was that the package "grid" was not found by the packages > > (like "lattice", "Hmisc", etc.) that were part of the dependencies for > > "tseries". So, I tried installing the package "grid" but could not. Here > > is what I did (and the result): > > > > $ sudo R > > > > Once in R, I did > > > >> install.packages("grid", dep=TRUE) > > > > And this is what I got as error message > > > > Warning in install.packages("grid", dep = TRUE) : > > argument 'lib' is missing: using /usr/local/lib/R/site-library > > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > > Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done > > dependency 'ÿÿgridÿÿ' is not available > > > > How should I proceed? > > > > Deepankar > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > 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. > > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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.
