Thank You All, I think all of this may have been due to shared library conflict headaches. At one point, I inadvertently upgraded my Perl install to 5.10, and I think that messed up a lot of my libraries. I have now started with a clean Ubuntu install, and am going to see if I can work my way back up to installing R and making that work. I will recontact the list if this problem persists through this reimaging of my server.
Thanks again, Matt On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:48:12AM -0400, Vincent Goulet wrote: >> Matthew, >> >> As per the CRAN Ubuntu README >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ >> >> install the Ubuntu r-base-dev package to compile R packages from >> sources. > > Well there should be a working r-cran-hmisc package. You simply got a > '404' error indicating that your network access (using http) to the > external Ubuntu mirror was broken. Fix that, or download the package > by hand. It may be easier to just install the missing package. > > That said, Vincent is of course entirely correct on the need for > r-base-dev. > > Dirk > >> >> Vincent >> >> Le lun. 22 sept. à 00:08, Matthew Pettis a écrit : >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to get the Hmisc module on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron install. >>> I tried getting Hmisc from within R by issuing the standard >>> 'install.packages' command, but it said I needed 'gfortran' to >>> compile. I thought I could circumvent this by using 'aptitude' to get >>> the package 'r-cran-hmisc', but when I got it, the package had >>> critical missing parts (got 404s). So, I'll be trying to go back and >>> download 'gfortran', but can anybody tell me if this aptitude ubuntu >>> package should be kept up to date and is just currently overlooked? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Matt >>> >>> -- >>> It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are >>> broken that we come to repair the world. >>> -- Murray Waas >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> 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. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> 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. > > -- > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. > -- It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are broken that we come to repair the world. -- Murray Waas ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.