Problem with R-2.1.0: install.packages() doesn't work
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