Patrick, Perhaps it's not the problem you're having, but just in case. Did you follow this step of the CRAN Ubuntu README file:
Users who need to compile R packages from source [e.g. package maintainers, or anyone installing packages with install.packages()] should also install the r-base-dev package: sudo apt-get install r-base-dev Cheers, Vincent Le dim. 9 mai à 10:35, Patrick Richardson a écrit : > I'm running R 2.11 on Karmic. I'm having difficulty installing quite a > few packages with the returned error message of "installation of package > "[whatever the packages happens to be]" had non-zero exit status. I know > this message sometimes is caused by incorrect or missing java packages > and the like. I generally don't have issues with the installation of R > or R packages but I don't know where to start on this. I have looked to > ensure that I have fortran and C++ compilers installed. I want to (if I > can) avoid indiscriminately installing packages "until it starts > working". I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting this. Could > anyone lend a hand, please? > > Thanks, > Patrick > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22) > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 > [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=C > LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > LC_ADDRESS=C > [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.11.0 > >> capabilities() > jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua http/ftp sockets > libxml fifo cledit > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE > TRUE TRUE TRUE > iconv NLS profmem cairo > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
