Hello! No, doing a hand-install of the spam package fails in the same way as when it is installed via installing the fields package. ie, in exactly the same way as seen in the initial post in this thread.
Apparently the latest version of "spam" is incompatible with the version of R that I have installed. I am hoping that if I can't upgrade R, that I can find a down-graded spam. The line from my sources.list was cut-and-pasted from a previous suggestion. Perhaps it is a typo? In any case, here is my entire sources.list. If it matters, I'm running this on an Amazon EC2 cloud machine. I'm sorry if these seem like particularly lame questions, but I rarely use apt-get and have never seen this issue before. Thanks! ## modifications made here will not survive a re-bundle. ## if you wish to make changes you can: ## a.) add 'apt_preserve_sources_list: true' to /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg ## or do the same in user-data ## b.) add sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.d ## c.) make changes to template file /etc/cloud/templates/sources.list.tmpl # # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution. deb http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric main deb-src http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric main ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the ## distribution. deb http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates main deb-src http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates main ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric universe deb-src http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric universe deb http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates universe deb-src http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates universe ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu ## security team. # deb http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric multiverse # deb-src http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric multiverse # deb http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates multiverse # deb-src http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates multiverse ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports' ## repository. ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features. ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team. # deb http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-backports main restricted universe multiverse # deb-src http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-backports main restricted universe multiverse ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's ## 'partner' repository. ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users. # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu oneiric partner # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu oneiric partner deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security main deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security main deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security universe deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security universe # deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security multiverse # deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security multiverse deb http://http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu oneiric/ -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/installing-spam-package-is-failing-spam-0-29-1-tp4636628p4636929.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
