Debian Rcmdr misses sem leaps etc?
Dear Peter, On Sat, 23 May 2015 08:40:52 +0200
Peter van Summeren <peter_van_summeren at hotmail.com> wrote:
Thanks to all who answered me, After reading all the mails I got, I did the following:- I logged in as root in Debian Jessie- I started Rcmdr. it told me that some files are missing, it offered me to get them, I did not fill in anything, just said ok, I had to choose a website from where to download, ok, it downloaded and it worked quite a lot, in the end it said: the downloaded packages are in /temp/Rtmp25kiWx/downloaded_packages,- Rcmdr came up neatly,- I changed to normal user mode, Rcmdr came up neatly. The reason I choose to log in as root, was that I was unsure what would happen in the process.
As I said, I'm not a Debian user, but I don't believe that it was necessary for you to log in as root to install R packages. It's also unclear to me whether you *tried* doing this as an ordinary user -- that is, simply clicking OK in the dialog box that offered to install missing R packages and then selecting a CRAN mirror from which those packages would be downloaded.
As root I can maintain "rights".All my R-packages I downloaded as normal user with a package commander. When some Debian developer reads the above: why was the usual package commander not enough?
That would require that Dirk package for Debian *all* the R packages used by the Rcmdr and their dependencies, which would be a lot of work -- unnecessary work since R packages can be installed directly from CRAN without being repackaged for Debian. Best, John ------------------------------------------------ John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
But I am glad I could reach this mailing list. with friendly greetings,Peter [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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