Running R from terminal in ubuntu 16.04 gives Fatal Error message
On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 17:32, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 15 February 2019 at 16:17, Behnoosh Zamanlooy wrote: | I just installed R 3.4.4 and Rstudio on my computer with the OS Ubuntu | 16.04. Rstudio detects the Installation of R and works normally. That would mean R works. RStudio "just" calls the R on your system. | However, trying to run R in the terminal I get this error: | | *Fatal error: unable to open the base package* This is in conflict with the statement above. | I have trying setting the R_HOME using: | | *export R_HOME=/usr/lib/R* | | However it did not work. Any idea how to resolve this? We need to know more about your installation ... | Ps. I have used r-bloggers | <https://www.r-bloggers.com/how-to-install-r-ubuntu-16-04-xenial/>, the | "Add R Repository" version to install R. ... and I am not familiar with that article. We generally recommend to follow the README at CRAN and its mirrors: https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
The r-bloggers article refers to http://cran.rstudio.com, which appears to be a cran mirror. The article provides the '0xe084dab9' short key and fails to mention the above README document with information about the duplicate "Totally legit: short key.
| Any help would be much appreciated. Start with showing us the output from the of apt-cache policy r-base-core
also the output of "which R" in case there is some other program called 'R'.
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