On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 17:32, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 15 February 2019 at 16:17, Behnoosh Zamanlooy wrote: > | I just installed R 3.4.4 and Rstudio on my computer with the OS Ubuntu > | 16.04. Rstudio detects the Installation of R and works normally. > > That would mean R works. RStudio "just" calls the R on your system. > > | However, trying to run R in the terminal I get this error: > | > | *Fatal error: unable to open the base package* > > This is in conflict with the statement above. > > | I have trying setting the R_HOME using: > | > | *export R_HOME=/usr/lib/R* > | > | However it did not work. Any idea how to resolve this? > > We need to know more about your installation ... > > | Ps. I have used r-bloggers > | <https://www.r-bloggers.com/how-to-install-r-ubuntu-16-04-xenial/>, the > | "Add R Repository" version to install R. > > ... and I am not familiar with that article. We generally recommend to > follow > the README at CRAN and its mirrors: > https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html > > The r-bloggers article refers to http://cran.rstudio.com, which appears to be a cran mirror. The article provides the '0xe084dab9' short key and fails to mention the above README document with information about the duplicate "Totally legit: short key. > | Any help would be much appreciated. > > Start with showing us the output from the of > > apt-cache policy r-base-core > also the output of "which R" in case there is some other program called 'R'. -- George N. White III [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian