On 21 July 2012 at 06:42, John Kane wrote: | I am getting what appears to be an Unbuntu level error in trying to install the | XML package.
You are making your life too complicated as there is a prepackaged version: edd@max:~$ dpkg -s r-cran-xml Package: r-cran-xml Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: gnu-r Installed-Size: 2363 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.6-2-1 Replaces: r-xml Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.14.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) Conflicts: r-xml Description: GNU R package for XML parsing and generation This package provides facilities for the R language to . * parse XML files, URLs and strings, using either the DOM (Document Object Model)/tree-based approach, or the event-driven SAX (Simple API for XML) mechanism; * generate XML content to buffers, files, URLs, and internal XML trees; * read DTDs as R objects. Original-Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> Homepage: http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML which works just fine: edd@max:~$ r -e 'library(XML); print("All good")' Loading required package: methods Loading required package: utils [1] "All good" edd@max:~$ Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
