On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Edin Villalobos Mora <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
Edin, One thing to do is to make sure all your packages have installed correctly. Run this command: sudo apt-get -f install This may correct the problem. Also, are you running 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu? I have not encountered any a buffer overflow issue on any of my machines, so this may prove difficult to diagnose. Does the buffer overflow (when running update.packages()) occur before or after the window pops up to ask what mirror you want to use? Michael -- Dr. Michael A. Rutter School of Science Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Station Road Erie, PA 16563 http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
