Hi Paul,

Please keep the list copied so that others might chime in with suggestions.

I'm afraid "no success" is too vague to be useful. What did you do,
and what errors did you encounter?

Best,
Ista

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Paul Tremblay <paulhtremb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I tried those instructions as well with no success.
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Did you read the installation instructions for Ubuntu at
>> https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ ?
>>
>> Best,
>> Ista
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Paul Tremblay <paulhtremb...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I needed to update R so I could install ggplot. I am running Ubuntu
>> > 12.04.
>> > I cannot upgrade Ubuntu because I am using a work computer.
>> >
>> > I tried upgrading the normal way:
>> >
>> > sudo apt-get update
>> >  sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
>> >
>> > But this only installed an earlier version. Finally I tried installing
>> > from
>> > source (./configure, Make install). This worked. However, when I try to
>> > install packages, I get this error:
>> >
>> > Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
>> >   internet routines cannot be loaded
>> > In addition: Warning message:
>> > In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
>> >   unable to load shared object '/usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so':
>> >   /usr/local/lib/R/modules//internet.so: undefined symbol:
>> > curl_multi_wait
>> >
>> >
>> >>> ls /usr/local/lib/R/modules/
>> >>> R_X11.so  R_de.so  internet.so  lapack.so
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > P
>> >
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