I was able to install the curl library with no problems. However, when I tried to install ggplot (install.packages("ggplot2")), I got the same message as earlier, that R can't load internet.so.
Thanks for your help! On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Tom Wright <t...@maladmin.com> wrote: > apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev > > On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 09:36 -0700, Paul Tremblay 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 > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.