On 24 September 2008 at 15:35, Paul Murtaugh wrote: | I'm trying to install R under Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy; Linux | 2.6.22-15-generic x86_64). Following the instructions at | http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README, I installed r-base, | r-base-core, and r-base-dev without any problems. When I open R, | however, I get the message "Can't open /usr/lib64/R/etc/ldpaths". | | That file is linked to /etc/R/ldpaths, which doesn't exist on my system.
It should. Checking on the amd64 system with R I can access quickly: | root# ls -l /usr/lib64/R/etc/ldpaths | 2008-09-24 13:44 /usr/lib64/R/etc/ldpaths -> /etc/R/ldpaths | root# ls /etc/R | root# [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -L r-base-core | grep ldpath /etc/R/ldpaths /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/R/ldpaths /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 370 2008-06-23 12:05 /etc/R/ldpaths lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-08-18 10:05 /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths -> /etc/R/ldpaths [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ | In fact, there doesn't appear to be an 'ldpaths' file anywhere, other | than a link to /etc/R/ldpaths from another directory. | | root# find / -name 'ldpaths' -print | /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -l /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths | 2008-09-24 13:44 /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths -> /etc/R/ldpaths | | Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. I'd suggest a purge of r-base-core (which may imply a purge of its dependents as well) and a re-install. The package should have a file /etc/R/ldpath (as Debian and Ubuntu prefer configuration files under /etc) with a link back to where R expects it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ R RHOME /usr/lib64/R [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/lib64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-08-18 07:06 /usr/lib64 -> lib [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/lib/R/ bin COPYING etc lib library modules NEWS share site-library SVN-REVISION [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which is /usr/lib/R/etc even though R thinks it is in /usr/lib64 -- which is just a link to /usr/lib. Hope this helps, Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ [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.
