Hi again, On 4 April 2009 at 14:37, Ken-JP wrote: | Yes, I have x11-common installed, and dpkg -S /etc/X11/rgb.txt shows "not | found" for me. | This is on Ubuntu 8.10 amd64.
Same 8.10 for both amd64 and i386 where I checked -- both have the file. It could be a leftover from an earlier install of mine, or an accidental deletion at your end. | Thanks for the detailed explanation on how R decides on where to install | packages! | I think I ran into problems when I haphazardly intermixed "sudo R" with "R" | before installing packages. | | ------------------------------------- | | BTW, is there a way to install all packages via: | | > install.packages(available.packages()[,1]) | | for Ubuntu without building everything? | | I noticed quite a few errors when I tried this - build problems probably | mostly due to missing installations in the OS. Well "you as the admin / user" have to make sure you provided the needed -dev packages that may be needed for compilation from package sources. R cannot know what those are called on Ubuntu, OS X, ... | It was much nicer when I tried this on Windoze, and everything was pulled in | cleanly and quickly. Those are _binaries_ not sources, and yes, the longer-term plan is to provide binaries for Debian and maybe Ubuntu as well. Not available yet though. | Is there a reason that packages seem to be in r-cran-XXX via "apt-get | install" for Ubuntu? | There must be an obvious reason that I don't know about... Some are (manually) packaged by maintainers like myself, but that covers only about 60 or so out of the 1600+ that are available. | Thanks for taking the time to answer. My pleasure. You raised good points. In case you didn't know that, the r-sig-debian list (subscription required for posting) is there to help with Debian / Ubuntu question. Dirk | | - Ken | | | | -- | View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Eclipse-and-StatET-Howto-%28also-added-Subversion%2C-Rtools%29-tp22764049p22888024.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. -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ 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.
