Dear Chris,
I am just keeping some parts of the thread below that I have not answered yet:
All that begs the question how I got myself here.
I think it was really a bug in the README on CRAN. I wrote that you can run a
regular update of R packages using update.packages() which is not
Huge thanks to Johannes (sorry, Johannes, I think I implied that Dirk
was doing all the hard work in rolling things in my earlier reply, the
you is plural!)
What I've done:
A) removed r-cran-rgl and r-cran-xml using synaptic as root
B) re-entered new R session as user chris, confirmed that the
Zitat von Chris Evans chrish...@psyctc.org:
Huge thanks to Johannes (sorry, Johannes, I think I implied that
Dirk was doing all the hard work in rolling things in my earlier
reply, the you is plural!)
Never mind - you are absolutely right that Dirk is doing the heavy
lifting, i.e.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for patient follow-up even after I (as Johannes noted) evidently
overlooked key parts of your first email.
On 21 September 2011 at 07:49, Chris Evans wrote:
| I ran synaptic from the Debian application menu which defaults to root
| after askling for the root password the first
Welcome!
On 20 September 2011 at 21:20, Chris Evans wrote:
| I am moving from windoze on a Dell laptop to Debian but I seem to have
| hit a snag for R. I managed to find the information to point an
| /etc/apt/sources.list entry at my local CRAN repository and have
| installed R 2.13.1 for
Also, as an aside, R should not have tried to write to
/usr/lib/R/site-library. Via the file /etc/R/Renviron, we define the library
path. You should see this in R:
R .libPaths()
[1] /usr/local/lib/R/site-library /usr/lib/R/site-library
/usr/lib/R/library
R
and
Dear Chris, Dirk, dear list,
let me add some thoughts here:
Zitat von Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org:
Welcome!
On 20 September 2011 at 21:20, Chris Evans wrote:
| I am moving from windoze on a Dell laptop to Debian but I seem to have
| hit a snag for R. I managed to find the information
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