Thanks for the replies, they are helping. I downloaded the recommended manual, and I'm sure that will help too. When I installed R, I did not (previously) obtain the R-2.8.1.tar.gz, but tried to follow some instructions I found elsewhere online (which apparently weren't right). I did have the deb source command and when I typed R into the Bash terminal, I had v.2.8.1, but all packages I downloaded went to some folder entitled 2.6.2. Trying to solve things, I was turning on permissions all over the place, and it caused problems.
This morning, I have backed up my hard drive, re-formatted my computer again with Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron from scratch, and am trying to follow that R Admin manual. I'm normally good with computers, but am completely new to Linux. The main purpose of this computer is R, so I guess I was hoping to get R set up quickly and correctly, and learn Linux in the background as I go. But it seems very difficult to do this. The first thing I'm stumbling on in the R Admin manual is where am I supposed to unpack R-2.8.1.tar.gz? Somehow, I'll bet this matters. Any step-by-step command help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problems-installing-updating-packages-in-Linux-tp21884607p21891402.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
