R SIG Debian - Feb 2019 - Fwd: Running R from terminal in ubuntu 16.04 gives Fatal Error message

I just installed R 3.4.4 and Rstudio on my computer with the OS Ubuntu
16.04. Rstudio detects the Installation of R and works normally. However,
trying to run R in the terminal I get this error:

*Fatal error: unable to open the base package*

I have trying setting the R_HOME using:

*export R_HOME=/usr/lib/R*

However it did not work. Any idea how to resolve this?


Ps. I have used r-bloggers
<https://www.r-bloggers.com/how-to-install-r-ubuntu-16-04-xenial/>, the
"Add R Repository" version to install R.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Best,

Behnoosh

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On 15 February 2019 at 16:17, Behnoosh Zamanlooy wrote:
| I just installed R 3.4.4 and Rstudio on my computer with the OS Ubuntu
| 16.04. Rstudio detects the Installation of R and works normally.

That would mean R works. RStudio "just" calls the R on your system.

| However, trying to run R in the terminal I get this error:
| 
| *Fatal error: unable to open the base package*

This is in conflict with the statement above.

| I have trying setting the R_HOME using:
| 
| *export R_HOME=/usr/lib/R*
| 
| However it did not work. Any idea how to resolve this?

We need to know more about your installation ...
 
| Ps. I have used r-bloggers
| <https://www.r-bloggers.com/how-to-install-r-ubuntu-16-04-xenial/>, the
| "Add R Repository" version to install R.

... and I am not familiar with that article. We generally recommend to follow
the README at CRAN and its mirrors:
   https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
 
| Any help would be much appreciated.

Start with showing us the output from the of

   apt-cache policy r-base-core

Dirk

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On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 17:32, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 15 February 2019 at 16:17, Behnoosh Zamanlooy wrote:
> | I just installed R 3.4.4 and Rstudio on my computer with the OS Ubuntu
> | 16.04. Rstudio detects the Installation of R and works normally.
>
> That would mean R works. RStudio "just" calls the R on your
system.
>
> | However, trying to run R in the terminal I get this error:
> |
> | *Fatal error: unable to open the base package*
>
> This is in conflict with the statement above.
>
> | I have trying setting the R_HOME using:
> |
> | *export R_HOME=/usr/lib/R*
> |
> | However it did not work. Any idea how to resolve this?
>
> We need to know more about your installation ...
>
> | Ps. I have used r-bloggers
> | <https://www.r-bloggers.com/how-to-install-r-ubuntu-16-04-xenial/>,
the
> | "Add R Repository" version to install R.
>
> ... and I am not familiar with that article. We generally recommend to
> follow
> the README at CRAN and its mirrors:
>    https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
>
>
The r-bloggers article refers to http://cran.rstudio.com, which appears to
be a
cran mirror.  The article provides the '0xe084dab9' short key and fails
to
mention the above README document with information about the
duplicate "Totally legit: short key.

> | Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Start with showing us the output from the of
>
>    apt-cache policy r-base-core
>
also the output of "which R" in case there is some other program
called 'R'.

-- 
George N. White III

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I removed my r-base package and installed it through the guide in Cran
mirror but I am still getting the same error. Here is the output to the
command above:
r-base-core:
  Installed: 3.4.4-1xenial0
  Candidate: 3.4.4-1xenial0
  Version table:
 *** 3.4.4-1xenial0 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.4.3-1xenial0 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.4.2-2xenial2 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.4.2-1xenial1 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.4.1-2xenial0 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.4.1-1xenial0 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.4.0-1xenial0 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.3.3-1xenial0 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.3.2-1xenial0 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.3.1-1xenial0 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.3.0-2xenial0 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.3.0-1xenial0 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.2.5-1xenial 500
        500 https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ Packages
     3.2.3-4 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64
Packages




On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 4:32 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> On 15 February 2019 at 16:17, Behnoosh Zamanlooy wrote:
> | I just installed R 3.4.4 and Rstudio on my computer with the OS Ubuntu
> | 16.04. Rstudio detects the Installation of R and works normally.
>
> That would mean R works. RStudio "just" calls the R on your
system.
>
> | However, trying to run R in the terminal I get this error:
> |
> | *Fatal error: unable to open the base package*
>
> This is in conflict with the statement above.
>
> | I have trying setting the R_HOME using:
> |
> | *export R_HOME=/usr/lib/R*
> |
> | However it did not work. Any idea how to resolve this?
>
> We need to know more about your installation ...
>
> | Ps. I have used r-bloggers
> | <https://www.r-bloggers.com/how-to-install-r-ubuntu-16-04-xenial/>,
the
> | "Add R Repository" version to install R.
>
> ... and I am not familiar with that article. We generally recommend to
> follow
> the README at CRAN and its mirrors:
>    https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
>
> | Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Start with showing us the output from the of
>
>    apt-cache policy r-base-core
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>
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