Many thanks to everyone who responded to my request for help with installing the up-to-date R binary on my Asus eee (details below).
The bulk of opinion was that one should replace Xandros with, for example, Ubuntu; however, for the benefit of other family members, I needed to keep the Xandros 'easy' version available. Particular thanks, then, to Millo Giovanni, whose email led me to this site: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/128565.html which helped me understand where I was going wrong. R2.9 is now installed on my eee, I can load & run packages, and the eee 'easy' option is still available ... so thanks again , R list. Bob Kinley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hi I've used R for many years on windows machines, but have now acquired an Asus eee 1000 linux machine. In order to get the best out of the machine, I used the 'pimpmyeee.sh' script, to get the full KDE desktop. The version of Linux is Xandros, which I believe is a close relative of Debian, but sadly I have only a nodding acquaintance with Linux at present. Naturally I want to have the current version of R on it, and I understand (or possibly misunderstand) that the binary for the Debian flavour of Linux should do the trick. I have tried - 1. using synaptic to add the appropriate (I think) CRAN repository ... but every combination I have tried gives a 404 error 2. downloading from CRAN what I think is a zipped-up version of r-base software, and thewn using the eee's file-manager 'install DEB package' option ... but this returns 'cannot load ... '. I'm a bit stuck ... can anyone help please ? thanks Bob Kinley [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.