Brian Lunergan
2008-Apr-29 00:42 UTC
[R-sig-Debian] Problem installing some packages on Ubuntu 7.10
Evening all: Recently moved over to Ubuntu 7.10. Installed version 2.7.0 of R from the U of T site in Ontario, Canada. Working on installing Rcmdr as my GUI of choice (yes, I know lots of you probably prefer an emacs/ess combination but give me a break. It's what I was comfortable with using R under XP). For the most part the installs have gone well in a regular terminal window using sudo R or just R in a root terminal window, but some of the packages just don't seem to be going quietly. I could use some advice as to what I might need to add to my setup or correct to get things to install. I'll deal with them one at a time so I can follow through on any suggestions offered before moving on to the next troublemaker. There are six involved, some of them being key players in the desired setup. First up is XML. I've included everything install.package() spit out to avoid confusion. My apologies if it's TOO much, but I'm no programmer so I didn't want to error by cutting something out that might have turned out to be useful. > install.packages("XML",dependencies=TRUE) Warning in install.packages("XML", dependencies = TRUE) : argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/XML_1.93-2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 870234 bytes (849 Kb) opened URL =================================================downloaded 849 Kb * Installing *source* package 'XML' ... checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for sed... /bin/sed checking for xml2-config... no Cannot find xml2-config ERROR: configuration failed for package 'XML' ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/XML' The downloaded packages are in /tmp/RtmpRMfnUs/downloaded_packages Warning message: In install.packages("XML", dependencies = TRUE) : installation of package 'XML' had non-zero exit status > -- Brian Lunergan Nepean, Ontario Canada
Dirk Eddelbuettel
2008-Apr-29 01:25 UTC
[R-sig-Debian] Problem installing some packages on Ubuntu 7.10
Brian, On 28 April 2008 at 20:42, Brian Lunergan wrote: | Recently moved over to Ubuntu 7.10. Installed version 2.7.0 of R from | the U of T site in Ontario, Canada. Working on installing Rcmdr as my [...] | I could use some advice as to what I might need to add to my setup or | correct to get things to install. I'll deal with them one at a time so I | can follow through on any suggestions offered before moving on to the | next troublemaker. There are six involved, some of them being key | players in the desired setup. First up is XML. I've included everything For both, you could use the packaged versions available in your Ubuntu repositories: $ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install r-cran-rcmdr r-cran-xml Otherwise, you need to know which of the '-dev' packages to have installed to be able to compile packages. So as a first step until you know your system and its pieces better, stick with what's pre-packaged. Also, $ apt-cache search r-cran- shows you what's available. Far from all on CRAN, but a fair number. Hope this helps, Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.