Dear Jay, Bob, Ista, I, too, have installed Rcmdr on Ubuntu systems several times with no problems. I suspect that r-base-dev wasn't installed and that Ista's procedure will produce the desired result.
Ista: Do you mind if I add your procedure, slightly edited and with credit, to the Rcmdr installation page? Step 6, however, shouldn't be necessary after installing with dep=TRUE, nor, I think, should step 3, since there's only R code in the Rcmdr package. Regards, John > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:r-sig-teaching-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Ista Zahn > Sent: February-14-09 11:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: R-sig-teaching > Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] installing Rcmdr > > I've found the version of R in the Ubuntu repository is almost always > out of date. Here is the process I follow: > > 1) Add the R repository (see http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/). > 2) Install R and the dev package: sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev > 3) Install any packages needed to build a particular package. In this > case something like sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rcmdr (I'm not on my > ubuntu machine at the moment so I'm not sure the package name is > correct). > 4) Start R from the command line as root so I can install packages > system-wide: sudo R > 5) From the R command prompt, install Rcmdr: > > install.packages("Rcmdr", dep=TRUE) > 6) Start Rcmdr and install additional packages when prompted. > > I've never had this procedure fail to produce a working installation. > > Hope it helps, > Ista > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:r-sig-teaching-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of G. Jay Kerns > Sent: February-14-09 9:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: R-sig-teaching > Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] installing Rcmdr > > 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
