Re: [R] Hmisc and Ubuntu (aptitude install)

2008-09-22 Thread Matthew Pettis
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 sh

Re: [R] Hmisc and Ubuntu (aptitude install)

2008-09-22 Thread Matthew Pettis
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 ba

Re: [R] Hmisc and Ubuntu (aptitude install)

2008-09-22 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
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.

Re: [R] Hmisc and Ubuntu (aptitude install)

2008-09-22 Thread Vincent Goulet
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. 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

[R] Hmisc and Ubuntu (aptitude install)

2008-09-21 Thread Matthew Pettis
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