Problems with installation on Debian

"UUO" == Usuario Universo Online <hzi at uol.com.br> writes:

UUO> Hello- Tired of the crashes I was experiencing with r 1.2.1
    UUO> on Windows ME, I downloaded the r-1.2.1.tgz under my Debian
    UUO> Linux box. I untared, unzipped and then I ./configure and
    UUO> make as specified i the FAQ.  But something went wrong...I
    UUO> had version 0.90 per-installed, as it comes with the normal
    UUO> Debian distribution and now, whenever I run R, the old
    UUO> version is the one that executed.  Can anyone kindly help,
    UUO> please? I'm not very experienced with Linux, so I don't quite
    UUO> know where it went wrong.  Thanks for any help/advice/tip.

    UUO> 	Regards,

Which version of Debian?  Potato?  CRAN has a debian archive
that you can obtain up-to-date R binaries, using apt-get.  I'm
assuming that you are on an Intel platform.

best,
-tony

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Check your $PATH environment variable - what's happening is the old
version is in an earlier search path than the new one.  In debian, the old
is probably in /usr/bin/R and the new in /usr/local/bin/R since you built
it from source.

Best would probably be to remove the whole thing, which you can probably
do with:

dpkg --remove r-base

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Hello-

	
	Tired of the crashes I was experiencing with r 1.2.1 on Windows ME, I 
downloaded the r-1.2.1.tgz under my Debian Linux box. I untared, unzipped 
and then I ./configure and make as specified i the FAQ.
	But something went wrong...I had version 0.90 per-installed, as it comes 
with the normal Debian distribution and now, whenever I run R, the old 
version is the one that executed.
	Can anyone kindly help, please? I'm not very experienced with Linux, so 
I don't quite know where it went wrong.
	Thanks for any help/advice/tip.

	Regards,

	Henry L.
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Andrew-
	Thanks for the helping hand.
	Real good advice!
	
	Best regards,

		Henry

Check your $PATH environment variable - what's happening is the old
version is in an earlier search path than the new one.  In debian, the 

old

is probably in /usr/bin/R and the new in /usr/local/bin/R since you built
it from source.

Best would probably be to remove the whole thing, which you can probably
do with:

dpkg --remove r-base

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
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