Hi All, After rebuilding my Ubuntu image, I followed the instruction in this thread, and everything worked out fine -- thank you again.
So, I'll just add: if you use R and perl, and don't have to download perl5.10, then don't do it, at least not yet. Or, if you do, then you will have a lot of shared object tweaking. Matt On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Pettis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank You All, > > I think all of this may have been due to shared library conflict > headaches. At one point, I inadvertently upgraded my Perl install to > 5.10, and I think that messed up a lot of my libraries. I have now > started with a clean Ubuntu install, and am going to see if I can work > my way back up to installing R and making that work. I will recontact > the list if this problem persists through this reimaging of my server. > > Thanks again, > Matt > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:48:12AM -0400, Vincent Goulet wrote: >>> Matthew, >>> >>> As per the CRAN Ubuntu README >>> >>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ >>> >>> install the Ubuntu r-base-dev package to compile R packages from >>> sources. >> >> Well there should be a working r-cran-hmisc package. You simply got a >> '404' error indicating that your network access (using http) to the >> external Ubuntu mirror was broken. Fix that, or download the package >> by hand. It may be easier to just install the missing package. >> >> That said, Vincent is of course entirely correct on the need for >> r-base-dev. >> >> Dirk >> >>> >>> Vincent >>> >>> Le lun. 22 sept. à 00:08, Matthew Pettis a écrit : >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm trying to get the Hmisc module on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron install. >>>> I tried getting Hmisc from within R by issuing the standard >>>> 'install.packages' command, but it said I needed 'gfortran' to >>>> compile. I thought I could circumvent this by using 'aptitude' to get >>>> the package 'r-cran-hmisc', but when I got it, the package had >>>> critical missing parts (got 404s). So, I'll be trying to go back and >>>> download 'gfortran', but can anybody tell me if this aptitude ubuntu >>>> package should be kept up to date and is just currently overlooked? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Matt >>>> >>>> -- >>>> It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are >>>> broken that we come to repair the world. >>>> -- Murray Waas >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> [email protected] 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. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] 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. >> >> -- >> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. >> > > > > -- > It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are > broken that we come to repair the world. > -- Murray Waas > -- It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are broken that we come to repair the world. -- Murray Waas ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
