On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:42 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:44 -0400, Manuel Morales wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:48 +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > Waichler, Scott R wrote: > > > > > > > I installed R-2.1.0 from source on a Linux box running Red Hat > > > > Enterprise Linux WS release 4 but install.packages() wouldn't work (see > > > > below). > > > > > >>install.packages("rgenoud") > > > > > > > > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > > > > Error in inherits(x, "factor") : Object "res" not found > > > > > > > > > Quite probably you have no X11 connection to this machine. > > > R tries to ask you which CRAN mirror you are going to choose, and it > > > fails to present the tcltk window. > > > You might want to call > > > chooseCRANmirror(graphics=FALSE) > > > and > > > setRepositories(graphics=FALSE) > > > prior to install.packages(). > > > > > > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > > I have the same problem after building R-2.1.0 from source on Fedora > > Core 3. The suggestion above fixes this, but what do you mean by "Quite > > probably you have no X11 connection on this machine"? I'm guessing you > > don't mean that X11 is not "running" (I use Gnome for my desktop). > > > > Manuel > > > For both Scott and Manuel, > > Can you post back with the output of: > > > capabilities() >
This is what I got: > capabilities() jpeg png tcltk X11 http/ftp sockets libxml fifo TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE cledit IEEE754 iconv TRUE TRUE TRUE I recompiled after downloading the tc and tk development packages, which gave tcltk as TRUE. update.packages() works if tcltk is enabled, but it seems not to revert to the non-graphical interface otherwise... ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html