Problem with R-2.1.0: install.packages() doesn't work
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:44 -0400, Manuel Morales wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:48 +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote:
Waichler, Scott R wrote:
I installed R-2.1.0 from source on a Linux box running Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 but install.packages() wouldn't work (see below).
install.packages("rgenoud")
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Error in inherits(x, "factor") : Object "res" not found
Quite probably you have no X11 connection to this machine. R tries to ask you which CRAN mirror you are going to choose, and it fails to present the tcltk window. You might want to call chooseCRANmirror(graphics=FALSE) and setRepositories(graphics=FALSE) prior to install.packages(). Uwe Ligges
I have the same problem after building R-2.1.0 from source on Fedora Core 3. The suggestion above fixes this, but what do you mean by "Quite probably you have no X11 connection on this machine"? I'm guessing you don't mean that X11 is not "running" (I use Gnome for my desktop). Manuel
For both Scott and Manuel, Can you post back with the output of:
capabilities()
It should look something like:
capabilities()
jpeg png tcltk X11 http/ftp sockets libxml fifo
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
cledit IEEE754 iconv
TRUE TRUE TRUE
Pay attention specifically to the values under 'tcltk' and 'X11'. Having
built from source tarballs, I am wondering if something got borked in
the build of the tcltk package or you don't have the X11 (xorg) devel
RPMS installed.
If the latter problem (X11) is the issue, you should not be able to
create any plots to the screen either so try:
plot(1:10)
and see if a graphic window comes up. Marc Schwartz