Thanks for the suggestions; they resolved the problems. First I installed r-base-dev and then started R via sudo R. Now, when I used update.packages(), the process completed without any warning messages.
Deepankar ----- Original Message ----- From: Ivailo Stoyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:53 am Subject: Re: [R] Upgrading > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:37 -0500, DEEPANKAR BASU wrote: > > Thanks for the comments. I had got Thomas' message wrong the > first time. Now, I have downloaded and re-installed the latest > version of R. After reading the "administration and maintenance" > manual, I added > > > > deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/ > > > > to my sources.list file and used apt-get to install the latest > version. After the installation, I used update.packages() from with > R to update all the packages. Let me know if this was what was > required or I made some mistake. > > > > I have two questions: > > 1. When a new version of R is released (every 6 months or so I > believe) will I have to uninstall the version of R in my machine > and then download and install the latest version? > > 2. When I used update.packages() from within R (after installing > the latest version), I still got the following warning messages: > > > > Warning messages: > > 1: installation of package 'cluster' had non-zero exit status in: > install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = > contriburl,> 2: installation of package 'mgcv' had non-zero exit > status in: install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, > contriburl = contriburl, > > 3: cannot create HTML package index in: > tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library) > The "cannot create HTML package index" message hints toward > insufficientprivileges -- during "update.packages()" R should run > with administrator > privileges, so you have to start it via "sudo R". The reason for the > other error messages could be also unavailable source packages due to > interrupted network connectivity, but generally the best approach > is to > set up a larger number of scrollback lines in the terminal (the > defaultcould be insufficient) and to inspect the output for the > specific reason > for the "non-zero exit status". Please note, that you may also need > r-base-dev (along with some other) installed in order to successfully > compile any of the packages available at CRAN. > > HTH, > Ivailo > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.