Hi everyone, I'm writing on behalf of a friend who's got a Ubuntu 9.04 system. After an apparent successful installation of R (via sudo apt-get install r-base), her attempts of loading R (typing 'R' on the terminal) always return a message stating that it is not installed. Since I'm no expert on Ubuntu nor on its package manag. system and, additionally, I failed on finding descriptions on the web of similar problems (not that they don't exist), I wonder if any of you could give me a pointer on how to proceed on such situation. Thank you very much, b
can't launch R after "installing" it
4 messages · Kevin Donnelly, Benilton Carvalho
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:38, Benilton Carvalho wrote:
After an apparent successful installation of R (via sudo apt-get install r-base), her attempts of loading R (typing 'R' on the terminal) always return a message stating that it is not installed.
I think r-base is a "dummy" package to ease the transition to a smaller base install. Can your friend try installing r-base-core and see what happens?
Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg
after 'sudo apt-get install r-base-core', this is what she gets (translated by me, sorry): Reading the list of packages.... ready. Building the dependency tree... Reading state information... ready r-base-core is the latest version r-base-core is set for manual installation 0 packages updated, 0 new packages installed, 0 to be removed and 0 not updated. Thoughts?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Kevin Donnelly <kevin at dotmon.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:38, Benilton Carvalho wrote:
After an apparent successful installation of R (via sudo apt-get install r-base), her attempts of loading R (typing 'R' on the terminal) always return a message stating that it is not installed.
I think r-base is a "dummy" package to ease the transition to a smaller base install. ?Can your friend try installing r-base-core and see what happens? -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg
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between some offline conversations and suggestions, things appear to be working fine after a 'sudo apt-get --purge remove'. thank you all, b
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Kevin Donnelly <kevin at dotmon.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:38, Benilton Carvalho wrote:
After an apparent successful installation of R (via sudo apt-get install r-base), her attempts of loading R (typing 'R' on the terminal) always return a message stating that it is not installed.
I think r-base is a "dummy" package to ease the transition to a smaller base install. ?Can your friend try installing r-base-core and see what happens? -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg
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