Re: [R] SOLVED: Repeated failures to install caret package (of Max Kuhn)

2015-04-14 Thread Eshwar
Thanks so much. I was struggling to install caret package on my upgraded R. It was failing to compile lme4 and threw up an error about llapack and lbas. I never realized that I needed to install lbas(I already had llapack) through SPM. Once I did that, I could install caret using install.packages

[R] SOLVED: Repeated failures to install caret package (of Max Kuhn)

2015-04-04 Thread Ronald Wyllys
These are notes on what I did to be able to install package caret. 0.The initial action was to re-install R v. 3.1.3 from this source file: r-base-core_3.1.3-1trusty_amd64.deb (available on CRAN Mirrors). This is the source file for Ubuntu 14.04, known as trusty, upon which LinuxMint 17.1