R help - Aug 2003 - Installing R with debian

Dear All,

I am trying to install R using debian's apt-get system. When I do
'apt-get install r-base', it appears to install everything correctly.
However, when I start up R I get the error message:

"
knoppix at Geron007:/knoppix$ R
cannot find system RenvironError in options(...) : invalid editor parameter

R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
Version 1.7.1  (2003-06-16)
"

The version I get is 
>version
         _
platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i386
os       linux-gnu
system   i386, linux-gnu
status
major    1
minor    7.1
year     2003
month    06
day      16
language R

I've tried (many times) uninstalling R, including other R modules, e.g
r-base-core and changing the version that I get via
"/etc/apt/sources.list".


Many Thanks

Colin

Colin,

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:05:46AM +0100, Colin Gillespie
wrote:
> I am trying to install R using debian's apt-get system. When I do
'apt-get install r-base', it appears to install everything correctly.
However, when I start up R I get the error message:
>
That's how it should work.
> "
> knoppix at Geron007:/knoppix$ R
> cannot find system RenvironError in options(...) : invalid editor parameter
That is unrelated. You seem to have a bad value in one of the startup files.
Try for example

knoppix at Geron007:/knoppix$ R --vanilla

which should work.
> I've tried (many times) uninstalling R, including other R modules, e.g
r-base-core and changing the version that I get via
"/etc/apt/sources.list".
<self promotion mode>
Have a look at Quantian (http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html) which
gives you Knoppix plus R plus some other 400mb of numerical/quantitative
software.  
</self promotion mode>

Hth, Dirk

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