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At step 5, don't copy the file. Instead, do: make install ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Pramod Anugu wrote:
I have downloaded R-2.3.0.tar.gz for Linux 64 bit processor 1. Untar tar -zxvf R-2.3.0.tar.gz 2. changed the directory to the newly created directory R-2.3.0 3. Typed ./configure 4. Typed make 5. Copied the Script File R from directory R-2.3.0/bin/R to /usr/local/bin/R. 6. Typed R Fatal error: unable to open the base package I get the error message. Please advice [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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On 05/31/06 09:25, Pramod Anugu wrote:
I have downloaded R-2.3.0.tar.gz for Linux 64 bit processor 1. Untar tar -zxvf R-2.3.0.tar.gz 2. changed the directory to the newly created directory R-2.3.0 3. Typed ./configure 4. Typed make 5. Copied the Script File R from directory R-2.3.0/bin/R to /usr/local/bin/R. 6. Typed R
The instructions say that you should use make install unless you want to run R from the directory into which you unpacked it.
Fatal error: unable to open the base package I get the error message. Please advice
If you are using Fedora Core 5, the RPM works well. Jon
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
Still the same problem after changing the step 5 I have downloaded R-2.3.0.tar.gz for Linux 64 bit processor 1. Untar tar -zxvf R-2.3.0.tar.gz 2. changed the directory to the newly created directory R-2.3.0 3. Typed ./configure 4. Typed make 5. Typed make install 6. Typed R Fatal error: unable to open the base package I get the error message. Please advice -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Perrin [mailto:clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:33 AM To: Pramod Anugu Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Running R At step 5, don't copy the file. Instead, do: make install ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Pramod Anugu wrote:
I have downloaded R-2.3.0.tar.gz for Linux 64 bit processor 1. Untar tar -zxvf R-2.3.0.tar.gz 2. changed the directory to the newly created directory R-2.3.0 3. Typed ./configure 4. Typed make 5. Copied the Script File R from directory R-2.3.0/bin/R to /usr/local/bin/R. 6. Typed R Fatal error: unable to open the base package I get the error message. Please advice [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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On 05/31/06 09:39, Pramod Anugu wrote:
5. Typed make install 6. Typed R Fatal error: unable to open the base package I get the error message. Please advice
Other things to try (aside from make check): 1. Make sure you are "root" before you say "make install". 2. Check to see that the packages really got installed, after "make install": ls /usr/local/lib/R/ (should have several directories) 3. Open a new terminal window before you type "R". (Sometimes that matters.) 4. Look at config.log. The make may not have even worked. There are many dependencies. Sometimes you need other programs, as described in the installation and administration manual. Jon
Jonathan Baron wrote:
5. Copied the Script File R from directory R-2.3.0/bin/R to /usr/local/bin/R. 6. Typed R
The instructions say that you should use make install unless you want to run R from the directory into which you unpacked it.
Another idea is to have a symlink (here assuming your R was unpacked in /usr/local/src/R-2.3.0): ln -s /usr/local/src/R-2.3.0/bin/R /usr/local/bin/R which essentially runs R from that R-2.3.0 directory. But the 'make install' solution has the advantage that you can delete the source directory where you did the make step to clear out the source and save some disk space. Barry