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...tatistical Computing | > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) | | Ta-da!!! | | Was the problem essentially that I had been saying | | "sudo apt-get install r-base" rather than | | "sudo apt-get install r-base-core"? No. One is a superset. A meta package. These are all __Debian__ or __Ubuntu__ questions. Be patient, learn some about your package manager. And this is not the correct list for Debian or Ubuntu basics so it might be polite of you to seek basic help elsewhere. | Is it possible that the latter is needed if R has previously been | installed from source, but ot...

...bin/R, the man files, etc. (Which I had likewise previously hidden away.) This did *not* happen before when I did "sudo apt-get install r-base". So there was a significant and important impact from installing what you refer to as the "meta package". > > These are all __Debian__ or __Ubuntu__ questions. Be patient, learn some > about your package manager. I don't think so. I have work to do; I don't wish to spend my time scrabbling around trying to find reliable and comprehensible documentation. There is a huge amount of material on the web; much of it is...

Rolf, I think it may help to read-up on dpkg and apt. Instead of 'whereis' do dpkg -l r-base-core to see the content of that package. Use apt-cache policy r-base-core to see what the package cache says about where it gets the package from. And so on. Also type -p R which R will tell where your system thinks R comes from. If you install R 3.5.2 you should not see R 3.5.1.