Its a new install of Ubuntu 13.10, 64 bit version. Thanks
J On 25 October 2013 13:54, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 25 October 2013 at 13:41, Jim Maas wrote: > | I've just installed r-base (several times!) using the instructions at > | http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ > | > | and for some reason it is not creating a /etc/R/ldpaths file. > | > | I've tried a few times, tried purging, and removing everything in > | /etc/R and > | /usr/lib/R > | > | as suggested by Dirk, > | > | and reinstalling but still get > | > | $ R > | /usr/bin/R: line 236: /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths: No such file or directory > | > | R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing" > | Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > | Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > | > | > | and then cannot install packages. > | > | I tried manually creating the file /etc/R/ldpaths and it got rid of the > | error when loading R, but would still not install packages. > | > | Something is not loading/installing correctly for latest version. Can > | anyone help diagnose and fix? > > No, we cannot as you didn't even tell us which version os Ubuntu you used. > > This works for _a lot_ of people. It also works in countless unattended > installs (as eg on Debian, Launchpad, Travis, ... to build or test > packages) > so "something" is different at your end. But from the information supplied > we > cannot possibly tell what it may be. > > Sorry, Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > -- Jim Maas 17 Pembroke Road Norwich, Norfolk, UK. NR2 3HD jimmaasuk at gmail.com + 44 (0)160 362 6145 + 44 (0)771 985 8698 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
