No worries Dirk
I managed to get things working on 2.11.0... a quick summary:
I manually went through and installed all the packages and their
dependencies by hand. I had to do some tweaking with installing dev
packages using apt-get so that the R build process for certain packages
would work (RMySQL most notably)
I had to install Cairo and switch from using png(file="xxx.png") to
CairoPNG(filename="xxx.png") to generate charts. For some reason in the
new version/or certain package the traditional png(file="xxx") does not
want to create a new file if one doesn't exist in the directory. I can
do 'touch test.png' then call png(file='test.png') from within R and it
will write to the file. I'll investigate further to see why that is.
Someone had mentioned it with one of the R/Apache packages as well.
Thanks for the help, I just ran through the entire workflow and things
appear to be working well now, on 2.11.0.. I'll make sure i'm more
careful/alert next time when doing something that can screw up software
for me and a bunch of other users ;)
-c
On 5/28/2010 11:39 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Hi Cedrick,
Wrong list -- r-sig-debian may be better so I am redirecting. Hope you don't
mind.
On 28 May 2010 at 11:25, Cedrick W. Johnson wrote:
| Hi-
|
| Looks like this morning, I did the ultimate in foobar to a main prod
| box. I was using apt-get upgrade on the box and totally missed the fact
| that my entire R installation went from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0.
|
| I now have a bunch of pkgs that aren't loading due to the fact that they
| were built before 2.10.0 -- There's some *ancient* packages, like (sma)
| that I was able to figure out what we were using, and pull out the
| relevant functions and just temporarily do a "source('xxx.r')" until I
| can re-build those things into new 2.11 packages.
|
| Am I totally SOL today or is there a way to "reverse" what the heck I
| did this morning to the entire R installation?
Comment out the /etc/apt/sources.list entry for the Ubuntu R port via CRAN
and pick the R version that came with Ubuntu's Hardy release.
You could use Ubunti Karmic's R from last fall; as I recall that was 2.9.2.
Lastly, you can always pick 2.10.0 and build a local package to recreate what
you just upgraded away from.
Or: just stick with 2.11.0 and populate /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ with
the CRAN packages you need. Just force a re-install, the install.r example
from littler may be of help.
Good luck.
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