Hello, I am trying to install a program based on R, but I am receiving the following error message: root at darkstar:/home/maria/UCS# perl System/Install.perl Error: Can't run the R interpreter (/usr/local/bin/R). Please make sure that R is installed and specify the fully qualified filename of the R interpreter with -R if necessary (see "doc/install.txt"). I do have installed R, and I can see it (it is working also fine when I use it):> which R > /usr/local/bin/RI have specified the location of the R interpreter with -R (or -rh) /usr/local/bin/R" when running the program, but it still doesn't work. I have also used -R /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R or -rh /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R. I have also added the locations to my search path. It seems that the problem comes from my environment, but I cannot figure out what's wrong. Do you have any clues why the interpreter cannot be found? Thank you.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Maria I. Tchalakova <maria.tchalakova at gmail.com> wrote:> I am trying to install a program based on R, but I am receiving the > following error message: > root at darkstar:/home/maria/UCS# perl System/Install.perl > Error: Can't run the R interpreter (/usr/local/bin/R). > Please make sure that R is installed and specify the fully qualified > filename of the R interpreter with -R if necessary (see "doc/install.txt"). > > I do have installed R, and I can see it (it is working also fine when I use it): >> which R >> /usr/local/bin/R > I have specified the location of the R interpreter with -R (or -rh) > /usr/local/bin/R" when running the program, but it still doesn't work. > I have also used -R /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R or -rh > /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R. > I have also added the locations to my search path. > > It seems that the problem comes from my environment, but I cannot > figure out what's wrong. Do you have any clues why the interpreter > cannot be found?Maria: what is the Linux distribution that you are using? Paul
Dear Maria, this is quite probably my faul, in some way. The UCS software has been abandoned a bit recently, as I'm planning to rewrite it into a pure R package. On the other hand, I still use the software occasionally, so it should work with recent R versions.> I am trying to install a program based on R, but I am receiving the > following error message: > root at darkstar:/home/maria/UCS# perl System/Install.perl > Error: Can't run the R interpreter (/usr/local/bin/R). > Please make sure that R is installed and specify the fully qualified > filename of the R interpreter with -R if necessary (see "doc/ > install.txt").This either means that your R installation is damaged and Install.perl can't run the command "R --version"; or that it has problems parsing the output of this command, so it thinks there's something wrong with R. What do you get if you type /usr/local/bin/R --version in a shell window? Which version of UCS are you trying to install? The message printed by "R --version" was changed some time ago (in early 2006, or so), so the Install.perl script stopped working at that time. You need to download UCS-0.5-prerelease, which works for me (version 0.4 will not). If you still can't get it to work, please contact me off-list so we can figure out the problem. Cheers, Stefan [ stefan.evert at uos.de | http://purl.org/stefan.evert ]