Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:56:17 -0300 (EST) From: Francisco Cribari <cribari at de.ufpe.br> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] [?] update.packages() - Linux I am running R 1.2.1 under Mandrake Linux 7.2 (installed from RPM) and I installed a few packages using install.packages() . Now, I am trying to upgrade these packages using update.packages() but I believe I am running into some kind of error. See below. Any tips will be greatly welcome. Thanks in advance. Francisco
Mike Meyer solved this on 24 Jan:
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:48:53 -0800
From: "Michael M. Meyer" <mikem at salter-point.com>
install.packages want to run
cmd <- paste(file.path(R.home(), "bin", "R")
(which on my system is /usr/lib/R/bin/R).
Unfortunately ( and this is R 1.2.1, installed from the rpm on CRAN)
that shell script has /var/tmp/R-base-root/usr/lib/R hard coded as the
R_Home.
Here is the diff between /usr/bin/R and /usrlib/R/bin/R.
->meyer<-:/usr/lib/R/bin> diff /usr/lib/R/bin/R /usr/bin/R
4c4
< R_HOME_DIR=/var/tmp/R-base-root/usr/lib/R
---
> R_HOME_DIR=/usr/lib/R
A "quick" fix is to cp /usr/bin/R to /usr/lib/R/bin/R
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