On 2021-11-07 5:17 p.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote: > The topic here is R language, not operating system surgery. You probably > shouldn't hold your breath for a solution to this here. > > That said, compiling and running without installing for access by the whole > system is always an option if you can fix the support libraries. > > On November 7, 2021 2:07:20 PM PST, Brian Lunergan <ff...@ncf.ca> wrote: >> Evening gents: >> >> First to quickly try and set the scene. >> >> I run R on Linux Mint 19.3. I had version 3.5 installed, but wanted to >> try and upgrade to 4.1. So... I deleted all R stuff I could find, setup >> the software sources file, and tried to install. Didn't work. I suppose >> it needs a more recent edition of Mint. Backpedalled as best I could. >> Now 3.5 was uncooperative. Finally found some notes describing how to >> install 3.6. That worked. So now I again have a functioning copy of R, >> with a current edition of Rstudio as my principle access tool. Adding >> pkgs through the software manager doesn't seem to be work, but as long >> as I fire it up using the sudo command I can add them through Rstudio. >> >> The puzzle comes at the end of an install round. It seems I may have >> taken out something I shouldn't have as I get the following warning. >> >> Warning messages: >> 1: In readLines(file, skipNul = TRUE) : >> cannot open compressed file >> '/usr/lib/R/site-library/labelled/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such >> file or directory' >> 2: In readLines(file, skipNul = TRUE) : >> cannot open compressed file >> '/usr/lib/R/site-library/TH.data/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such >> file or directory' >> >> I'm not really sure. I assume I got sloppy withe deletions. I ask for >> assistance to solve this. What does it mean? What can I do to correct >> the error? Thanks in advance.
Point taken Jeff, IF it were a Linux msg. But it's not, having appeared within an active R session following the install of some pkgs, so I thought here was a logical place to start. The directory is present but apparently the file is not. No doubt I approached things in a disorganized way and deleted it when I should have left it alone. So perhaps you or one of the other group members could suggest how to replace what R is seeking or, if not here, what R group I might approach to find an answer for this R problem, -- Brian Lunergan Pavillon Marionville Russell, Ontario Canada
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