similar to: Setting a mirror "permanently" on R on ubuntu (PR#13995)

Dear all, I seem to have many problems as I run R on my ubuntu system. want to set a mirror so that anytime I use the command "install.packages", it does not ask me for which mirror to use but go direct. This is because of the error I keep on getting below and I dont know how to solve it. Please help. Kind regards, Lazarus > library(epicalc) Loading required package: foreign

Dear all, I installed my R-2.9.2 on my ubuntu version 9.04 successfully using the command sudo apt-get install r-base-dev The problem is that I cannot install any package. See my details below: > install.packages("epicalc") Warning in install.packages("epicalc") : argument 'lib' is missing: using '/home/lmramba/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9'

*Hello, I have had this serious problem while trying to install package rJava. It is a requirement by the package JGR and it cannot be downloaded due to the error indicated below. I have googled and looked at the FAQ but no solution yet. Please advise. Kind regards, Lazarus > install.packages("rJava")* Warning in install.packages("rJava") : argument 'lib' is

Dear Sir, I am almost giving up on getting the R-2.9.1 on the ubuntu 9.04 using the instructions found on the R site. I decided to use the R-2.9.1.tar.gz and untarred it. I then typed ./configure and the results are shown below. However, on typing make, I got an error, "No targets specified and no makefile found stop" What is the solution? lmramba at LMramba-dll-d:~$ su Password:

Dear R Users; I am an R user who has recently bought a new laptop;Toshiba Satellite U405 running on both Windows Vista and Ubuntu. I have problems on the wondows vista when installing packages. The argument 'lib' is missing. How do i solve this problem? Illustration: > install.packages("epicalc") Warning in install.packages("epicalc") : argument 'lib'

> library(rJava) Error in library(rJava) : there is no package called 'rJava' > install.packages("rJava") Warning in install.packages("rJava") : argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done trying URL

On 10 October 2009 at 05:25, lmramba at gmail.com wrote: | Dear all, | I installed my R-2.9.2 on my ubuntu version 9.04 successfully using= the | command |=20 | sudo apt-get install r-base-dev |=20 | The problem is that I cannot install any package. Huh? This has _nothing_ to do with the error below. =20 | See my details below: |=20 |=20 |=20 | > install.packages("epicalc") |

Hi, I can't pinpoint exactly since what R version I first noticed this error, but are others seeing this? R> vignette("grid") R> sh: : command not found instead of having the vignette displayed in the proper viewer? This is with: R> sessionInfo() R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu locale:

Dear R-help team, I am getting addicted to using R but keep on getting many challenges on the way especially on data management (data cleaning). I have been wanting to drop all the rows if there values are `NA' or have specific values like 1 or 2 or 3. mdat <- matrix(1:21, nrow = 7, ncol=3, byrow=TRUE, dimnames = list(c("row1",

*Hello, I have had this serious problem while trying to install package rJava. It is a requirement by the package JGR and it cannot be downloaded due to the error indicated below. I have googled and looked at the FAQ but no solution yet. Please advise. Kind regards, Lazarus > install.packages("rJava")* Warning in install.packages("rJava") : argument 'lib' is

On 10 October 2009 at 05:40, lmramba at gmail.com wrote: | > library(rJava) | Error in library(rJava) : there is no package called 'rJava' | > install.packages("rJava") | Warning in install.packages("rJava") : | argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' | --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- | Loading

Dear all, I have a large matrix with about 2500 variables, and 100 rows. I would like to calculate the means of the every 10 variables starting from 1:2500 and saving the results as a vector or matrix. How can I do that? Alternatively, How can I create 250 subset matrices in the order of variables 1:2500 in groups of 10 from the single matrix which had initially 2500 variables ? I guess I have

Dear All, Consider the following piece of code: pdf(file="figure.pdf", family="Palatino") plot(0,0,type='n', xlim=c(-20,20), ylim=c(0,2),xlab="",ylab="",axes=F) text(-1.4,1.168,expression(italic("The font looks different when this is seen with Acrobat Reader!")),xpd=T) dev.off() When viewing the produced figure.pdf with kpdf (on Linux),

I had, in the past, a .pdf reader that also permitted me to fill in some information, when I received a .pdf file. I have KPDF installed, but that seems to only have Reader capability. Trying to install xpdf, with yum, I get this dependency error from rpmforge: 1:xpdf-3.02-8.el5.rf.i386 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libXm.so.4 is needed by package

A professor here at Vanderbilt sent me the following code. Each of the text strings should right justify against the center vertical bar, but because of font issues it doesn't. I understand that there are workarounds, but I was just curious if this was consistent across all platforms. On linux with R 2.7.1 and R-trunk (r46103), both acrobat reader 8 and kpdf render it incorrectly. How

> library(rJava) Error in library(rJava) : there is no package called 'rJava' > install.packages("rJava") Warning in install.packages("rJava") : argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done trying URL

Dear All, I installed R 2.7.0 and tried to call a dataset i had ealier own called on R2.6.2 but i keep on getting an error: use("maltreat.dta") Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format Tried doing the same with R2.7.1 but i get the same error. However if i call the same on R 2.6.2, there is no error: use("maltreat.dta") > des()

Dear R People: I'm using R-2.8.1 on Ubuntu Jaunty jackalope (or whatever its name is), and having a problem with the vignette function: > vignette("snowfall") sh: /usr/bin/xpdf: not found > Has anyone run into this, please? Or is this for the Debian R list, please? Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Colleagues, I am interesting in opening a PDF document via the command line from both Windows, OS X, and Linux ( R version 2.8.0). I found a command openPDF in Biobase. However, I would rather execute the command myself. For example, in OS X: > system("open filename.pdf") is successful. Is there a comparable command line command for Windows or Linux? Dennis Dennis Fisher

I use the ugly hack shown below as my .Rprofile (mainly because I couldn't find any other way to spawn a new mozilla window on starting R or calling help.start(), but then send all the help html documents to that new window). With a recent change from a cvs checkout to the released 1.9.0 I find that the new hs() appears if there is nothing of that name in .RData, but if there is the old hs()