Dear Robert,
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Robert W. Hayden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Last weekend I visited my sister and her husband and installed R on > their Ubuntu 8.04 machine and tried to add Rcmdr. I had endless > trouble most of which seemed to be because R (or Rcmdr) seemed to want > a Fortran compiler (or a Fortran-to-C translator). A smaller number > of error mesages (out of many pages thereof) were removed by > installing what appeared to be a library of Fortran linear algebra > routines (lblas?). Even then Rcmdr complained about missing packages > when I ran it, and though it offered to install them, the installation > failed in every case, with no useful error messages. > > I have installed R and Rcmdr many times before to Windows and various > Linux distributions (it's on this Debian right now) and never had so > much trouble. Did I do something wrong? Is there a problem with R on > Ubuntu? I have programmed in Fortran so I don't mind adding a > compiler and I've taught linear algebra so I don't mind adding linear > algebra routines, but there is no way my students would ever figure > out that was needed. I also noted that Rcmdr had a MUCH longer list > of dependencies than I remember. All of this has me worried about > using R in an introductory course for folks who are not computer > science majors. > > Has anyone encountered a similar problem? I used whatever version of > R is in the Ubuntu repository. I seem to remember 2.4 though that > seems a bit old. > > -------> First-time AP Stats. teacher? Help is on the way! See > > http://courses.ncssm.edu/math/Stat_Inst/Stats2007/Bob%20Hayden/Relief.html > > Robert W. Hayden in the old library at 212 Main Street (P. O. Box 450) > North Troy, VT 05859 phone (802) 988-2587 web site http://statland.org/ > email bob statland.org (add your own "@" and save me some spam) > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching > I am and have been using Rcmdr on Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04, and currently on 8.10. I used 32 bit Ubuntu for 7.10 and 8.04, but on 8.10 I am using both 32 and 64 bit versions. For the record, I have had no problems whatsoever installing Rcmdr. First thought (and you didn't mention): are you sure that you have the r-base-dev Ubuntu package installed? If you do not have that installed, then you won't be able to build _anything_. If you already have r-base-dev....? it is good practice to install the packages from the repository with Synaptic (which it sounds like is what you did), since in those cases, dependencies are marked automatically for installation most of the time. Another thing that you could try is to right-click on packages in Synaptic - it gives other packages "suggested" for installation. In some cases, installing these extra packages helped me with installation problems elsewhere, too. And you could consider contacting John Fox directly. He's great about responding quickly, thoughtfully, and accurately. Good luck. Jay *************************************************** G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mathematics & Statistics Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) -3302 Department -3170 FAX E-mail: [email protected] http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
