I still have no idea what the problem was, except that some files did not get created/installed during the install. I installed a fresh version of Ubuntu 13.10 64 bit and then R and now it seems to work fine!
Thanks J On 25 October 2013 13:55, Michael Rutter <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, > > What version of Ubuntu are you using? Was this a fresh install or an > upgrade? This is the only report of this I have heard, so I need some more > information. > > Michael > > > On 10/25/2013 08:41 AM, Jim Maas wrote: > >> I've just installed r-base (several times!) using the instructions at >> http://cran.us.r-project.org/**bin/linux/ubuntu/<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? >> >> Thanks a bunch, >> >> J >> >> >> >> > -- > Dr. Michael A. Rutter > Associate Professor of Statistics > Program Coordinator, Mathematics > Penn State Erie, The Behrend College > Station Road > Erie, PA 16563 > http://math.bd.psu.edu/**faculty/rutter<http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter> > -- Jim Maas [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
