R SIG Debian - Oct 2013 - problem with ldpaths

I've just installed r-base (several times!) using the instructions at
http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

and for some reason it is not creating a /etc/R/ldpaths file.

I've tried a few times, tried purging, and removing everything in
/etc/R    and
/usr/lib/R

as suggested by Dirk,

and reinstalling but still get

$ R
/usr/bin/R: line 236: /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths: No such file or directory

R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing"
Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)


and then cannot install packages.

I tried manually creating the file /etc/R/ldpaths and it got rid of the
error when loading R, but would still not install packages.

Something is not loading/installing correctly for latest version.  Can
anyone help diagnose and fix?

Thanks a bunch,

J



-- 
Jim Maas

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On 25 October 2013 at 13:41, Jim Maas wrote:
| I've just installed r-base (several times!) using the instructions at
| http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
| 
| and for some reason it is not creating a /etc/R/ldpaths file.
| 
| I've tried a few times, tried purging, and removing everything in
| /etc/R    and
| /usr/lib/R
| 
| as suggested by Dirk,
| 
| and reinstalling but still get
| 
| $ R
| /usr/bin/R: line 236: /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths: No such file or directory
| 
| R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing"
| Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
| Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
| 
| 
| and then cannot install packages.
| 
| I tried manually creating the file /etc/R/ldpaths and it got rid of the
| error when loading R, but would still not install packages.
| 
| Something is not loading/installing correctly for latest version.  Can
| anyone help diagnose and fix?

No, we cannot as you didn't even tell us which version os Ubuntu you used.

This works for _a lot_ of people. It also works in countless unattended
installs (as eg on Debian, Launchpad, Travis, ... to build or test packages)
so "something" is different at your end. But from the information
supplied we
cannot possibly tell what it may be.

Sorry, Dirk

-- 
Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com

Jim,

What version of Ubuntu are you using?  Was this a fresh install or an 
upgrade?  This is the only report of this I have heard, so I need some 
more information.

Michael

On 10/25/2013 08:41 AM, Jim Maas wrote:
> I've just installed r-base (several times!) using the instructions at
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>
> and for some reason it is not creating a /etc/R/ldpaths file.
>
> I've tried a few times, tried purging, and removing everything in
> /etc/R    and
> /usr/lib/R
>
> as suggested by Dirk,
>
> and reinstalling but still get
>
> $ R
> /usr/bin/R: line 236: /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths: No such file or directory
>
> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing"
> Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
>
> and then cannot install packages.
>
> I tried manually creating the file /etc/R/ldpaths and it got rid of the
> error when loading R, but would still not install packages.
>
> Something is not loading/installing correctly for latest version.  Can
> anyone help diagnose and fix?
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> J
>
>
>
-- 
Dr. Michael A. Rutter
Associate Professor of Statistics
Program Coordinator, Mathematics
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Station Road
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter