Good evenings. I am a novice in R and I have a big problem updating and installing packages inside R in Ubuntu 10.10 I followed the instructions in http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ :
*Added a new repository in Ubuntu : http://cran-r.c3sl.ufpr.br/bin/linux/ubuntu maverick/ *update the r-base and r-base-dev packages *Enter R with "sudo" The R version is right [R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25)] but commands in the R console like 'install.packages("pwr")' or install.packages("agricolae") fail with the message "*** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated" and a long backtrace and memory map in both cases. I tought that the reason was because the above packages are not kept up-to-date like r-cran packages, but I type the 'update.packages()' command with the supported packages and the "buffer overflow"backtrace-memory-map message appears again in the 13 updates of the supported packages (like boot, nlme, lattice, etc). This messages appear only in the newer versions of R in my machine, I even uninstalled those versions of R (2.12.x or 2.11.x) before because of this problems. But now, with my update of Ubuntu from 10.04 to 10.10 that's no longer an option and I evaded this problem long enough and is time to face it... but I need your help with that, because I have no idea how to solve this: my method of uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times it didn't work. Thanks in advance for your advice. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
