Re: [R] Problem installing packages While installing R (version 2.4.0) on my Dell desktop (Optiplex GX 270)on a Ubuntu Linux platform, I had followed the advice contained in thefollowing link:http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/README
Briefly, what I had done is the following:
I had added "deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/" tomy "/etc/apt/sources.list" and then did
$ sudo apt-get update$ sudo apt-get upgrade$ sudo apt-get install r-base
Since my R installation is broken, my questions are: 
(1)should I re-install R as above or do I need to install manually? Iwould of course prefer using apt-get. 
(2)should I also install the r-commended bundle? I did not do this lasttime and as Peter has pointed out, this might have caused the problem.
Deepankar

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 21:53 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:> 'grid' is an integral part of R, so this suggests your R installation is > broken.  (You could have found that out from the R FAQ Q5.1.1.)> > You have told us very little (please study the posting guide), not > including which version of R and how you installed it.  Please try > reinstalling R, from the sources of R 2.5.0 RC if you can.> > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Deepankar Basu wrote:> > > I tried to install the package "tseries" but could not do so. Any> > suggestions are welcome. I am using Ubuntu Linux and here is what I did:> >> > $ sudo R> >> > Then once in R, I did> >> >> install.packages("tseries", dep=TRUE)> >> > which gave a long list of errors. Going through them, I saw that the> > basic problem was that the package "grid" was not found by the packages> > (like "lattice", "Hmisc", etc.) that were part of the dependencies for> > "tseries". So, I tried installing the package "grid" but could not. Here> > is what I did (and the result):> >> > $ sudo R> >> > Once in R, I did> >> >> install.packages("grid", dep=TRUE)> >> > And this is what I got as error message> >> > Warning in install.packages("grid", dep = TRUE) :> >         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> > dependency 'Ã¿Ã¿gridÃ¿Ã¿' is not available> >> > How should I proceed?> >> > Deepankar> >> > ______________________________________________> > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.> >>
______________________________________________R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-helpPLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.htmland provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

