Should/shouldn't there be one? My R seems to be installed in /usr/lib/R. If do an "ls" of this directory, I get:> bin/ COPYING@ etc/ lib/ library/ modules/ > site-library/ SVN-REVISIONDefinitely no "doc". The (only) reason that I am concerned about this, is that I have decided to experiment a bit with Rstudio, and it apparently wants a "doc" directory. When I try to start Rstudio I get a pop-up window with the error message> R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found.Note that /usr/local/lib64/R is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/R. The latter is where my installation put R; the former seems to be where Rstudio wants it to. So I created the symbolic link. The discrepancy between locations is another puzzle/worry. My installation comes from a pre-built binary ("sudo apt install r-base"). I apparently have the latest version. I remark that I am running Ubuntu 20.04 with a Mate 1.20.4 desktop. How can I get a "doc" directory into my R directory and make Rstudio happy? cheers, Rolf Turner P.S. I have also tried to ask about this on the Rstudio community forum, but it seems to me to more of an R question than an Rstudio one. R. T. -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
R documentation on my Ubuntu 20.20 is in /usr/share/R/doc. I see no doc directories in the locations you mention using locate /doc/ Maybe you should be asking on R-sig-debian, perhaps with less noise about RStudio? On Sun, 8 Aug 2021, Rolf Turner wrote:> > Should/shouldn't there be one? > > My R seems to be installed in /usr/lib/R. If do an "ls" of this > directory, I get: > >> bin/ COPYING@ etc/ lib/ library/ modules/ >> site-library/ SVN-REVISION > > Definitely no "doc". > > The (only) reason that I am concerned about this, is that I have decided > to experiment a bit with Rstudio, and it apparently wants a "doc" > directory. When I try to start Rstudio I get a pop-up window with the > error message > >> R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found. > > Note that /usr/local/lib64/R is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/R. > The latter is where my installation put R; the former seems to be where > Rstudio wants it to. So I created the symbolic link. > > The discrepancy between locations is another puzzle/worry. > > My installation comes from a pre-built binary ("sudo apt install > r-base"). I apparently have the latest version. I remark that I am > running Ubuntu 20.04 with a Mate 1.20.4 desktop. > > How can I get a "doc" directory into my R directory and make Rstudio > happy? > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > P.S. I have also tried to ask about this on the Rstudio community > forum, but it seems to me to more of an R question than an Rstudio one. > > R. T. > > -- > Honorary Research Fellow > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k
Hi Rolf, What about: mkdir /usr/lib/R/doc Jim On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 12:45 PM Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:> > > Should/shouldn't there be one? > > My R seems to be installed in /usr/lib/R. If do an "ls" of this > directory, I get: > > > bin/ COPYING@ etc/ lib/ library/ modules/ > > site-library/ SVN-REVISION > > Definitely no "doc". > > The (only) reason that I am concerned about this, is that I have decided > to experiment a bit with Rstudio, and it apparently wants a "doc" > directory. When I try to start Rstudio I get a pop-up window with the > error message > > > R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found. > > Note that /usr/local/lib64/R is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/R. > The latter is where my installation put R; the former seems to be where > Rstudio wants it to. So I created the symbolic link. > > The discrepancy between locations is another puzzle/worry. > > My installation comes from a pre-built binary ("sudo apt install > r-base"). I apparently have the latest version. I remark that I am > running Ubuntu 20.04 with a Mate 1.20.4 desktop. > > How can I get a "doc" directory into my R directory and make Rstudio > happy? > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > P.S. I have also tried to ask about this on the Rstudio community > forum, but it seems to me to more of an R question than an Rstudio one. > > R. T. > > -- > Honorary Research Fellow > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
If you start R just using the regular command line version (not
RStudio), does
Sys.getenv("R_DOC_DIR")
point to /usr/share/R/doc ? The standard R startup script should do
that, but if it doesn't maybe you've got an override?
Or maybe you have R_DOC_DIR defined yourself?
Duncan Murdoch
On 07/08/2021 10:45 p.m., Rolf Turner wrote:>
> Should/shouldn't there be one?
>
> My R seems to be installed in /usr/lib/R. If do an "ls" of this
> directory, I get:
>
>> bin/ COPYING@ etc/ lib/ library/ modules/
>> site-library/ SVN-REVISION
>
> Definitely no "doc".
>
> The (only) reason that I am concerned about this, is that I have decided
> to experiment a bit with Rstudio, and it apparently wants a "doc"
> directory. When I try to start Rstudio I get a pop-up window with the
> error message
>
>> R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found.
>
> Note that /usr/local/lib64/R is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/R.
> The latter is where my installation put R; the former seems to be where
> Rstudio wants it to. So I created the symbolic link.
>
> The discrepancy between locations is another puzzle/worry.
>
> My installation comes from a pre-built binary ("sudo apt install
> r-base"). I apparently have the latest version. I remark that I am
> running Ubuntu 20.04 with a Mate 1.20.4 desktop.
>
> How can I get a "doc" directory into my R directory and make
Rstudio
> happy?
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
> P.S. I have also tried to ask about this on the Rstudio community
> forum, but it seems to me to more of an R question than an Rstudio one.
>
> R. T.
>
> --
> Honorary Research Fellow
> Department of Statistics
> University of Auckland
> Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>