R won't start right

By the way: I also tried using the debian woody packages available via
CRAN. There are two issues, one major and one minor:
- Minor issue: woody is referred to as Debian 2.3, when it's actually
Debian 3.0.

Where is that reference made?  Could you point to a concrete file to fixed?

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ReadMe

- Major issue: there's a dependancy problem. I installed r-base and
r-recommended from the CRAN archive and tried to run them, but got an
error loading libraries on libblas.so.2: no such file or directory.

Strange, you should have gotten an error on installation then.  Which Debian
package did you install:  "stable" or "testing/unstable"?  

I put this in sources.list:
deb http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian woody main

and then did:
apt-get install r-base r-recommended

It installed fine, even though:
nujoma:~> dpkg -l | grep -i blas
nujoma:~>

returns nothing.

Anyway, please install any of the packages providing a blas library -- either 
the non-optimised blas package or an optimised Atlas library matching your 
hardware. 

nujoma:~> locate libblas
/usr/lib/3dnow/atlas/libblas.so.2
/usr/lib/3dnow/atlas/libblas.so.2.3
/usr/lib/atlas/libblas.so.2
/usr/lib/atlas/libblas.so.2.3


Interestingly enough, my home-built version seems to use a different blas
from either of the above:

nujoma:~> ldd /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R.bin
        libf77blas.so.2 => /usr/lib/libf77blas.so.2 (0x4001e000)
        libatlas.so.2 => /usr/lib/libatlas.so.2 (0x40035000)
        libreadline.so.4 => /lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x40243000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40269000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4026c000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x402aa000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x402cb000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

I hope this is of some help.

Thanks,
Andy

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