Re: [R] help updating package rJava (on ubuntu)

2012-02-20 Thread Karl Brand
Simon, Thanks alot for the further clarification. As i said some where in my lengthy explanation - i don't what of the myriad steps were needed, only that they were performed and i now have an up-to-date rJava. Next time (actually coming up soon) i'll certainly be following the couple

Re: [R] help updating package rJava (on ubuntu)

2012-02-19 Thread Karl Brand
Hi Hasan, Success. For myself and FWIW to other useR's here's how i spent the sunny half of my sunday to achieve it :/ Many thanks for your and Simon's input, Karl Since: $ javac -version returned nothing i believe you (and Simon) were right, i.e, it (and JDK) were missing on my system.

Re: [R] help updating package rJava (on ubuntu)

2012-02-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 19, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Karl Brand wrote: Hi Hasan, Success. For myself and FWIW to other useR's here's how i spent the sunny half of my sunday to achieve it :/ Many thanks for your and Simon's input, FWIW you should not need to set any custom settings if you system is properly

[R] help updating package rJava (on ubuntu)

2012-02-18 Thread Karl Brand
Esteemed useRs and Devs, Attempts to update package:rJava to the latest version have failed. See my code and output below. Notably, as suggested here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3311940/r-rjava-package-install-failing $ sudo apt-get install r-cran-rjava ran successfully without

Re: [R] help updating package rJava (on ubuntu)

2012-02-18 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 18, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Karl Brand wrote: Esteemed useRs and Devs, Attempts to update package:rJava to the latest version have failed. See my code and output below. Notably, as suggested here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3311940/r-rjava-package-install-failing $ sudo

Re: [R] help updating package rJava (on ubuntu)

2012-02-18 Thread Karl Brand
Simon, Thanks for yout fast response. Thing is - i managed to get Version 0.9-1 installed and fully functional. And $ locate jdk returns too many entries to post here, so i'm pretty sure its on the machine. So i'd like to know how i can ensure it's registered in R. This i have no idea

Re: [R] help updating package rJava (on ubuntu)

2012-02-18 Thread Hasan Diwan
On 18 February 2012 13:13, Karl Brand k.br...@erasmusmc.nl wrote: Thanks for yout fast response. Thing is - i managed to get Version 0.9-1 installed and fully functional. And $ locate jdk returns too many entries to post here, so i'm pretty sure its on the machine. What you want to look