On 26/04/11 10:46, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 25 April 2011 at 17:39, Abraham Mathew wrote:
| Hello folks,
|
|
| Here's is info on what system I'm working on.
|> sessionInfo()
| R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
| Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
|
|
| I'm trying to install the XML package. However, I end up with the following
| error message.
You can install the prebuilt package
r-cran-xml
directly from the Ubuntu repositories.
Just out of idle curiosity I tried this. (Don't want/need XML, but since
I've fairly recently started using Ubuntu, I like to see whether I can drive
these sudo apt-get tools .....)
So I did
sudo apt-get install r-cran-xml
and it seemed to run without error. Then I started R and tried
library(XML)
and got the error
Error in library(XML) : there is no package called 'XML'
So I then said ``Hmmmm. Maybe I've misunderstood, and the sudo apt-get
bizzo
has just provided the underlying xml2-config stuff, and I still need to
do the install
of the R package XML. So I tried that, and got the message:
checking for xml2-config... no
Cannot find xml2-config
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘XML’
* removing ‘/home/rolf/Rlib/XML’
So either something's not working properly or I'm still not
understanding what
I should be doing. Enlightenment?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P. S. I *believe* that I have the Ubuntu repositories referenced
correctly in
my /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz/bin/linux/ubuntu lucid/
R. T.
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