Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.11.0 for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on CRAN

2010-06-01 Thread Mauricio Zambrano
Dear Carlos, 2010/6/1 Carlos J. Gil Bellosta c...@datanalytics.com: Hello, What runs underneath is the download.file() function. Can you download a file with it? For instance, I can do download.file( http://www.google.com/index.html;, index.html ) Can you? Yes, I could: download.file(

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.11.0 for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on CRAN

2010-06-01 Thread Mauricio Zambrano
Dear Carlos and Michael, 2010/6/1 Michael Rutter ma...@psu.edu: On 06/01/2010 07:05 AM, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta wrote: Hello, What runs underneath is the download.file() function. Can you download a file with it? For instance, I can do download.file( http://www.google.com/index.html;,

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] 2.11.0 on ubuntu (hardy) inadvertently installed

2010-05-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Cedrick, Wrong list -- r-sig-debian may be better so I am redirecting. Hope you don't mind. On 28 May 2010 at 11:25, Cedrick W. Johnson wrote: | Hi- | | Looks like this morning, I did the ultimate in foobar to a main prod | box. I was using apt-get upgrade on the box and totally missed the

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] 2.11.0 on ubuntu (hardy) inadvertently installed

2010-05-28 Thread Cedrick W. Johnson
No worries Dirk I managed to get things working on 2.11.0... a quick summary: I manually went through and installed all the packages and their dependencies by hand. I had to do some tweaking with installing dev packages using apt-get so that the R build process for certain packages would

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R GUI ???

2010-05-17 Thread Petar Milin
: 2 Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 17:00:00 +0100 From: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com To: Tim H?ring tim.haer...@gmx.net Cc: r-sig-debian@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] R GUI ??? Message-ID: aanlktik8mjj061jmzsjqmd2fphrreo5h1328br5ex...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R GUI ???

2010-05-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 5/16/10, Tim Häring tim.haer...@gmx.net wrote: I am really happy to find this list. I am not new to R but to Debian or Linux in general. Up to now I used R on MS Windows but now I want to use R on Debian lenny. I have absolutely no experience with Debian. I was able to install R

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R GUI ???

2010-05-16 Thread Johannes Ranke
Hi, Am Sonntag, 16. Mai 2010, um 18:26:08 schrieb Tim Häring: Thank you for your answer. There isn't quite an equivalent of the R GUI on Linux, although you might want to look into JGR for a similar experience. Oh, these are bad news. consider any of the available editors: Emacs +

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.11.0 for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on CRAN

2010-05-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 13 May 2010 at 11:02, Whit Armstrong wrote: | Many thanks for your efforts! | | Just wondering whether the patch for the segfault with | format.POSIXct() will make its way into the ubuntu repositories | anytime soon? As a general rule, I make releases only when R Core releases (as well as

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.11 on Ubuntu 9.10 does not complain abt unexisting objects

2010-05-12 Thread Matthieu Stigler
Vincent Goulet a écrit : Matthieu, [Lots of output deleted] REvolution R enhancements not installed. For improved performance and other extensions: apt-get install revolution-r May I ask where you took your R 2.11.0 that issues this message at launch? I don't think the packages

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.11 on Ubuntu 9.10 does not complain abt unexisting objects

2010-05-11 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 11 May 2010 at 09:08, Matthieu Stigler wrote: | Hi | | I recently updated to R 2.11 and see a strange problem. When run into | the console, R does not warn when calling an unexisting object, see | below. I don't know if this is related, but I am not able to run the R | CMD BATCH

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.11 on Ubuntu 9.10 does not complain abt unexisting objects

2010-05-11 Thread Matthieu Stigler
Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : On 11 May 2010 at 09:08, Matthieu Stigler wrote: | Hi | | I recently updated to R 2.11 and see a strange problem. When run into | the console, R does not warn when calling an unexisting object, see | below. I don't know if this is related, but I am not able to run

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.11 on Ubuntu 9.10 does not complain abt unexisting objects

2010-05-11 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 11 May 2010 at 15:29, Matthieu Stigler wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | On 11 May 2010 at 09:08, Matthieu Stigler wrote: | | Hi | | | | I recently updated to R 2.11 and see a strange problem. When run into | | the console, R does not warn when calling an unexisting object, see |

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.11 on Ubuntu 9.10 does not complain abt unexisting objects

2010-05-11 Thread mat
Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : On 11 May 2010 at 15:29, Matthieu Stigler wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | On 11 May 2010 at 09:08, Matthieu Stigler wrote: | | Hi | | | | I recently updated to R 2.11 and see a strange problem. When run into | | the console, R does not warn when calling

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.11 on Ubuntu 9.10 does not complain abt unexisting objects

2010-05-11 Thread Vincent Goulet
Matthieu, [Lots of output deleted] REvolution R enhancements not installed. For improved performance and other extensions: apt-get install revolution-r May I ask where you took your R 2.11.0 that issues this message at launch? I don't think the packages we provide on CRAN should do this

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R for ubuntu 10.04?

2010-04-27 Thread Michael Rutter
Tengfei, Yes, there will be packages for 10.04 (lucid lynx) available on CRAN. I have done some testing and things should work fine. It takes a couple of days for the packages to hit CRAN, so please be patient. If you did upgrade, there are R packages in universe that you can install based

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R for ubuntu 10.04?

2010-04-27 Thread Tengfei Yin
Hi Michael, Thanks for sharing this good news and your/your colleagues' work on that! I will be patient and waiting for it being officially released in the CRAN. Thanks again! Best Tengfei On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Michael Rutter ma...@psu.edu wrote: Tengfei, Yes, there will be

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R for ubuntu 10.04?

2010-04-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 27 April 2010 at 10:31, Tengfei Yin wrote: | I am currently using Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) and R 2.10, I can find a R release | that support karmic in cran under ubuntu directory, I plan to update my | laptop to Ubuntu 10.04 after April 30, since I have to use some new features | or new version in

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R for ubuntu 10.04?

2010-04-27 Thread Tengfei Yin
Hi Dirk, Thanks for your suggestions and solution! I will upgrade them as you suggested~~ Regards Tengfei On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote: On 27 April 2010 at 10:31, Tengfei Yin wrote: | I am currently using Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) and R 2.10, I can

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R slower after etch-lenny upgrade

2009-12-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:06:56AM -0700, Gary Hodges a écrit : Gary Hodges wrote: Hi. Last week I updated from 32 bit etch to 32 bit lenny on an AMD SMP machine. I first cloned the system disk to an identical drive, and updated the cloned drive. I still have the etch install untouched

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R slower after etch-lenny upgrade

2009-12-09 Thread Gary Hodges
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:06:56AM -0700, Gary Hodges a écrit : Gary Hodges wrote: Hi. Last week I updated from 32 bit etch to 32 bit lenny on an AMD SMP machine. I first cloned the system disk to an identical drive, and updated the cloned drive. I still have the

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R slower after etch-lenny upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Gary Hodges
Gary Hodges wrote: Hi. Last week I updated from 32 bit etch to 32 bit lenny on an AMD SMP machine. I first cloned the system disk to an identical drive, and updated the cloned drive. I still have the etch install untouched on the previous drive, which has allowed me to do some testing.

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R on netbooks -- was 'Upgrading R packages on Etch'

2009-11-11 Thread Prof. John C Nash
Just a general comment that may be important for avoiding troubles with netbooks. The original post mentioned issues of space on the netbook disk. I run my netbook with the /var/log directed to tmpfs. Also try to clear the apt cache with apt-get clean Netbooks (esp. with SSD) need to be kept a

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] vignette problem

2009-05-24 Thread Fernando Mayer
Hi, maybe this happens because you don't have xpdf installed. You can install it with $ sudo apt-get install xpdf or, use evince (which is the default pdf viewer in Ubuntu). To do this, change this option in your R session: options(pdfviewer = /usr/bin/evince) and try again. You may also

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] vignette problem

2009-05-24 Thread Erin Hodgess
Terrific! It worked like a charm! Thanks so much! Sincerely, Erin On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Fernando Mayer fernandoma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, maybe this happens because you don't have xpdf installed. You can install it with $ sudo apt-get install xpdf or, use evince (which is

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 43, Issue 2

2009-03-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 20 March 2009 at 12:34, Petar Milin wrote: | b) that said, you can often get R from Debian unstable onto testing. I | do | that, but that is a more advanced route than what you asked. | | So, that would mean: |deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free Yes --

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R-packages updates

2008-11-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 17 November 2008 at 12:39, Arnaud Battistella wrote: | Hi, | I have 2 quick questions: | 1/ I installed some packages not available in Debian (vars, VaR, quantmod) | in /usr/local/lib/R/site-library. Now, I would like to be able to update | them using update.packages(); however,

Re: [R-sig-Debian] r-cran-vars?

2008-10-27 Thread Arnaud Battistella
Thanks a lot for your help! Just one last thing: how can we make sure not to have duplicate version of packages (Debian CRAN) and how bad can this be? Arnaud Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 27 October 2008 at 19:53, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 27 October 2008 at 14:48, Christopher David

Re: [R-sig-Debian] r-cran-vars?

2008-10-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 October 2008 at 03:34, Arnaud Battistella wrote: | Thanks a lot for your help! Just one last thing: how can we make sure | not to have duplicate version of packages (Debian CRAN) and how bad | can this be? That's two last things if my counting is right :) a) We cannot avoid as the two

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R-sig-debian] compiling from source

2008-10-07 Thread Sebastian P. Luque
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:55:19 -0500, Erin Hodgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi R Debian People: I am aware that there are binaries for R for Debian. Is it ever necessary to compile from source, or should I just leave well enough alone, please (high probability)? Depends on how quickly you

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R-sig-debian] compiling from source

2008-10-07 Thread Vincent Goulet
Le mar. 7 oct. à 14:24, Sebastian P. Luque a écrit : On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:55:19 -0500, Erin Hodgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi R Debian People: I am aware that there are binaries for R for Debian. Is it ever necessary to compile from source, or should I just leave well enough alone,

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R-sig-debian] compiling from source

2008-10-07 Thread Sebastian P. Luque
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:44:23 -0400, Vincent Goulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'd beg to differ, here. The unstable packages usually migrate to testing after the latency period of ten days. As for stable, the binary packages are available from CRAN; see But what if you're in testing and

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R-sig-debian] compiling from source

2008-10-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 October 2008 at 14:44, Vincent Goulet wrote: | | Le mar. 7 oct. à 14:24, Sebastian P. Luque a écrit : | | On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:55:19 -0500, | Erin Hodgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi R Debian People: I am aware that there are binaries for R for | Debian. | | Is it ever

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.7.2 and Ubuntu / tcltk issues

2008-10-06 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello, I have another problem: Failed to fetch http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/gutsy/r-cran-lattice_0.17-15-1gutsy0_i386.deb Size mismatch (I tried several times) Best, Philippe ..°})) ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( (Prof.

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.7.2 and Ubuntu / tcltk issues

2008-10-06 Thread Vincent Goulet
Le lun. 6 oct. à 10:13, Philippe Grosjean a écrit : Hello, I have another problem: Failed to fetch http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/gutsy/r-cran-lattice_0.17-15-1gutsy0_i386.deb Size mismatch (I tried several times) And I clicked on the link above and it worked. The file is

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.7.2 and Ubuntu / tcltk issues

2008-10-06 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Thank you. I preferred to upgrade to Hardy. Note that I had to eliminate tcl8.5 (the upgrade left the old version) and then to make: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tcl8.5 sudo apt-get install tcl8.5-dev - this one is apprently required, and! sudo apt-get install r-base sudo apt-get

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 37, Issue 9

2008-09-17 Thread José Luis Cañadas
I have the same problem. Thanks for fix it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Send R-SIG-Debian mailing list submissions to r-sig-debian@r-project.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian or, via email, send a

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] installation problem: package 'mgcv' could not be loaded

2008-09-02 Thread Vincent Goulet
[Moved to R-SIG-Debian where this actually belongs] Le mar. 2 sept. à 03:03, Simon Zhu a écrit : Hello all, i'm a newbie of R trying to make some statistical work in R environment. Now i have to laptops, one is Thinkpad X40 with Debian Lenny and the other is Thinkpad T43 with Ubuntu 8.10.

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] installation problem: package 'mgcv' could not be loaded

2008-09-02 Thread Vincent Goulet
Le mar. 2 sept. à 10:05, Vincent Goulet a écrit : [Moved to R-SIG-Debian where this actually belongs] Le mar. 2 sept. à 03:03, Simon Zhu a écrit : Hello all, i'm a newbie of R trying to make some statistical work in R environment. Now i have to laptops, one is Thinkpad X40 with Debian

Re: [R-sig-Debian] r-base-core issue

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Rutter
Fede, The hardy0 name on the amd64 packages does not match the hardy1 on the generic (any architecture) metapackage r-base. We will get this straightened out and matching packages will likely be on CRAN in the next 24 hours or so. Sorry for the inconvenience, Michael Federico Calboli

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.7.2 kernlab issues

2008-08-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Josh, On 27 August 2008 at 13:24, Josh Stumpf wrote: | Hello, | | After upgrading to 2.7.2 this morning via the cran repository, I get the | following error when calling R via the command line: | | Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : | unable to load shared library |

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

2008-07-10 Thread COREY SPARKS
: Re: [R-sig-Debian] R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1 I just tried the following in Gnome on Debian: [A]: Launcher icon on the main window. 1. On the root window (i.e. the background), click with the right mouse button. 2. You then get a menu. Choose Create Launcher. 3. Give it (e.g.) Name

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

2008-07-06 Thread COREY SPARKS
R won't appear under the applications. Go to the terminal (in the accessories menu) and type R. It will run in command line. You might also want to install r-base-dev if you want to compile libraries. Corey S. Sparks, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Demography and Organization

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

2008-07-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 6 July 2008 at 10:38, COREY SPARKS wrote: | R won't appear under the applications. Go to the terminal (in the accessories menu) and type R. It will run in command line. | You might also want to install r-base-dev if you want to compile libraries. For the record, under Kubuntu, I see it

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

2008-07-06 Thread Ted Harding
I just tried the following in Gnome on Debian: [A]: Launcher icon on the main window. 1. On the root window (i.e. the background), click with the right mouse button. 2. You then get a menu. Choose Create Launcher. 3. Give it (e.g.) Name: R, Generic Name: R, Comment: R. (you can change these

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

2008-07-06 Thread Tomas Radivoyevitch
I just gave this a test drive and a drawback I found was that the paste is no longer ctrl-shift-v (i.e. close enough to ctrl-v that I can get used to it) but rather shift-insert. Does anyone know if there any other drawbacks to this xterm approach? Tom On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Ted

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

2008-07-06 Thread Ted Harding
On 06-Jul-08 20:07:44, Tomas Radivoyevitch wrote: I just gave this a test drive and a drawback I found was that the paste is no longer ctrl-shift-v (i.e. close enough to ctrl-v that I can get used to it) but rather shift-insert. Does anyone know if there any other drawbacks to this xterm

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] Question about graphical UI running R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) on Ubuntu Hardy Heron...

2008-06-28 Thread Scionforbai
Have a look at RKWard (http://rkward.sourceforge.net/), for kde. I don't know though if Ubuntu has it in its repos. ___ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] need help for building R in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-30 Thread Martin Maechler
Thanks a lot, Doug and Dirk, for 'wajig'. I didn't know it but now plan to use it as well. One thing though (wajig or apt-get or aptitude): apt-get build-dep r-base has a bit a seemingly undesired effect on my ubuntu 8.04 system: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] need help for building R in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:18:34AM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: Thanks a lot, Doug and Dirk, for 'wajig'. I didn't know it but now plan to use it as well. One thing though (wajig or apt-get or aptitude): apt-get build-dep r-base has a bit a seemingly undesired effect on my

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] Ubuntu rJava

2008-05-29 Thread Vincent Goulet
[Moving this to R-SIG-Debian where it belongs] Le jeu. 29 mai à 07:22, threshold a écrit : Hi I am using ubuntu 8.04 and faced some problems when installing rJava. What I did first was install.packages(rJava) but I could not proceed since: checking Java support in R... configure: error:

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] need help for building R in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-29 Thread Douglas Bates
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Tony Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [moving this to R-sig-debian] Dirk, thanks for this info. The r-wiki http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation:debian contained some slightly different suggestions, but I strongly suspect

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] need help for building R in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-29 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Tony, On 29 May 2008 at 16:10, Tony Plate wrote: | [moving this to R-sig-debian] Good move! Thanks also to everybody for the follow-ups. As wajig maintainer and hence initial Debian user, I fully concur with what Doug said in its favour. Also note that wajig's author is now also a

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] Installing R on ubuntu dapper

2008-01-15 Thread hadley wickham
I am moving this to r-sig-debian, and I encourage you to subscribe there. [ If you do not subscribe, your mails will bounce. You are of course free to contact us off-list too. ] Thanks, and subscribed. Not enough information here. It could simply be something else that is not R related.

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R] Which Linux OS on Athlon amd64, to comfortably run R?

2007-12-11 Thread Tony Plate
[moved from R-help] Kevin Middleton wrote: One oddity about Ubuntu is that there are no CRAN builds for 64bit. Volunteers would be welcomed with open arms. I don't think I know enough to volunteer (but I am open to suggestion off list), but I had no difficulty installing R from source

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.6.1

2007-11-26 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 26 November 2007 at 15:44, Tyler Smith wrote: | On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 01:21:20PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | Debian testing users cannot run the unstable binaries as libc6 is ahead on | unstable. We'll have to wait for libc6, or for Johannes' backports :) | | Any idea when

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.5.0 packages for Debian stable/etch

2007-05-14 Thread Ivailo Stoyanov
Johannes Ranke jranke at uni-bremen.de writes: Dear list, R 2.5.0 packages for Debian stable (i386 and amd64) are now available from CRAN. The new recommended codetools and rcompgen packages haven't completely made it to Debian yet, but can of course be installed in the standard

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.5.0 in Debian unstable

2007-04-26 Thread Vincent Goulet
Le 07-04-26 à 21:39, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : On 24 April 2007 at 07:52, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | I just uploaded R 2.5.0 to Debian's unstable distribution. As Peter's | announcement says, it now contains two new packages'rcompgen' and | 'codetools'. | | About two or three

Re: [R-sig-Debian] [R-gui] R GUI for Linux (using Java)

2006-10-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 06:50:54AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Adrian, On 30 October 2006 at 12:42, Adrian Dusa wrote: | | I've been looking for r-base-core_2.4.0 for Ubuntu on CRAN... any chance to | appear there soon? Kind of gave up on my habbit of compiling R from sources, |

Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.4 needed for packages in testing _now_?

2006-10-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Tyler, On 4 October 2006 at 21:04, Tyler Smith wrote: | Hi, | | I'm running testing, freshly updated, and I've now got a version of MASS | installed that depends on R =2.4. Yup -- my mistake. I updated all (my Debian-maintained) packages from CRAN the day they came out using the 2.4.0

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