R SIG Debian - Nov 2009 - problems with Rcmdr on R-2.10.0 with Karmic Koala

Dear R Debian People:

I have put this on regular R help as well, but thought that I'd try here
too.

I updated to R-2.10.0 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala via apt-get update, apt-get
install.

Then I had a problem that said that I need MASS <= R-2.9.2.  Fair enough. 
Uwe Ligges was kind enough to point out that I needed to use
> update.packges(checkBuilt=TRUE)
So I did.

Now the menu on Rcmdr does not appear.

Just as an experiment, I downloaded the R-2.10.0.tar.gz file and installed via
./configure, make, etc. and all is well there.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Sincerely,
Erin


Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu


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Erin,

I don't have a machine running Karmic yet (I have learned never to 
update a linux distribution in the middle of the semester), so I can't 
test this easily.  At what point are you getting the MASS error?

Also, are you using the ubuntu packages on CRAN or the ones that come 
with Karmic in universe?

Michael

Hodgess, Erin wrote:
> Dear R Debian People:
> 
> I have put this on regular R help as well, but thought that I'd try
here too.
> 
> I updated to R-2.10.0 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala via apt-get update, apt-get
install.
> 
> Then I had a problem that said that I need MASS <= R-2.9.2.  Fair
enough.  Uwe Ligges was kind enough to point out that I needed to use
>> update.packges(checkBuilt=TRUE)
> 
> So I did.
> 
> Now the menu on Rcmdr does not appear.
> 
> Just as an experiment, I downloaded the R-2.10.0.tar.gz file and installed
via ./configure, make, etc. and all is well there.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sincerely,
> Erin
> 
> 
> Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
> 
> 
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