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Hi everyone, I'm writing on behalf of a friend who's got a Ubuntu 9.04 system. After an apparent successful installation of R (via sudo apt-get install r-base), her attempts of loading R (typing 'R' on the terminal) always return a message stating that it is not installed. Since I'm no expert on Ubuntu nor on its package manag. system and, additionally, I failed on finding

Dear all Recently I noticed that there are name clashes between the packages proposed in the Debian testing repos and cran2deb. For example, Synaptic proposes to upgrade from xtable 1.5-6-1cran1 (cran2deb, up-to-date CRAN version) to 1.5.5-1 (testing, older version). Is there anything that can be done about these clashes? Liviu -- Do you know how to read?

A new package, *latticist*, is available now from CRAN. Latticist is a graphical user interface for exploratory visualisation. It is primarily an interface to the Lattice graphics system, but also produces displays from the vcd package for categorical data. Given a multivariate dataset (either a data frame or a table), Latticist attempts to produce useful displays based on the properties of the

A new package, *latticist*, is available now from CRAN. Latticist is a graphical user interface for exploratory visualisation. It is primarily an interface to the Lattice graphics system, but also produces displays from the vcd package for categorical data. Given a multivariate dataset (either a data frame or a table), Latticist attempts to produce useful displays based on the properties of the

Hello, running windows vista, R2.9. Installed the following libraries: (*latticist*, *playwith* and *Cairo*) Wanted then to run, to evaluate the visualization features: >data(iris) >library(latticist) >latticist(iris) However, i tested my desktop and laptop and get the following error after typing latticist(iris): latticist(iris) Loading required package: playwith Loading

Yesterday I wanted to try rattle on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. I had (and still have) it running (though it complains on startup a bit -- I'll look into that later) on a different bootup on the same machine with 8.04 Hardy. I got an error that libglade cannot be found, and various attempts to get glade support failed. I removed and reinstalled R -- same problem. To avoid the issue of local setup

[ Kevin sent this to me but agreed that it's better to have this discussed here. ] On 30 January 2010 at 12:18, Kevin Donnelly wrote: | Hi | | I'm beginning to learn R,a nd I've just discovered cran2deb - what a terrific | resource! Thanks for making it. | | I was wondering what happens if I want to use cran2deb versions instead of the | versions installed via R itself. I'm

Some packages are available in cran2deb and Debian. After adding cran2deb to my sources.list it seems the cran2deb ones are favored because X.Y-ZcranN is "more recent" than X.Y-Z. In the case of r-cran-rmpi the effect of this was to cause aptitude to want to uninstall all my mpi stuff. Apparently the automatically generated package doesn't have mpi as a dependency. I just put a

What is the relation between the cran2deb repository, http://debian.cran.r-project.org/, and the debian repositories at CRAN, http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/? I've studied the pages and this list, but am unsure I've got it right. My understanding is that cran2deb had almost all packages, targets testing, and currently is only supported for i386. It appears the debian repo at

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 with cran2deb packages (I know it's meant for Debian, it's worked fine for me for many months). Recently apt-get update has to started to complain: ... Hit http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Release Get:1 http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages [515kB] Fetched 1B in 3s (0B/s) W: Failed to fetch

Announcing cran2deb: 1700+ Debian packages from almost all of CRAN ------------------------------------------------------------------ Last Friday's presentation at UseR! 2009 was the first really public mention of 'cran2deb'. It provides Debian packages of all of CRAN. It started as Charles' project from last year's Google Summer of Code, was further extended by us over the

Dear Michael, I was looking up the status of the cran2deb effort and notice that you now have a PPA where new packages are landing and being built for Ubuntu. It looks like this is still a work in progress, but is already a fantastic resource for me and I hope it is something that you can continue to operate. I'm now installing many of these packages but some things I need are missing.

Hi, I am curious what will happen to cran2deb: deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/ When Squeeze is released? I really hope this service will continue. It has been great being able to aptitude install R packages. Additionally are these packages signed and is there a key? Chris

Hi, I was wondering whether there was plans to support again cran2deb for the amd64 architecture soon. I got updates recently so I was wondering whether amd64 packages were uploaded or if I was only getting architecture independent packages... Thanks for your great work! cran2deb is awesome, looking forward to have it again fully operational again for amd64! Best, A.

Hi, I would also be in favor of a stronger stance on licenses. In industry, where we can really get in big trouble for violating a license, we often maintain internal repositories, or need to be careful about filtering what is used from CRAN. I think that is should really be a requirement the package authors commit to stating what the restrictions are on their packages. Nicholas On 10

The cran2deb archives target testing. I just pulled a package from them onto a stable system; the library loaded but said > library(akima) Warning message: package 'akima' was built under R version 2.10.0 Are this and other packages likely to work correctly with different R's (2.7 in the case of stable)? How well are they likely to work with a backported R? The R version would

Dear All, I am running (X)Ubuntu 9.10 for the amd64 architecture on both my laptop e desktop. I came across the posts http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1336062 http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-debian at r-project.org/msg00892.html So it looks like that I will not be able to safely use cran2deb together with Ubuntu, but I simply would like to make sure that this is the way things

Hi All, just to check, is cran2deb available for Karmic Koala (ideally also for a amd_64)? Cheers, Fede -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com

Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else (didn't see it), but is cran2deb fully compatible with Ubuntu? Novice question: I use install.packages() within R. The pros of using sudo apt-get instead seem obvious, but are there any cons I should know about? Thanks -- Etienne Lalibert? ================================ School of Forestry University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800

Dear All, I used cran2deb in the past quite happily. I am now running debian squeeze on one of my machines (amd64 architecture) and planning to stick to it even after it is released as the new stable. I now read at http://debian.cran.r-project.org/ that the amd64 architecture is not supported right know. Now, seen that cran2deb has always been extremely convenient to me, I would like to know