Re: [R] installation problem on Ubuntu

2016-04-22 Thread David Winsemius
> On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:47 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > source ~/.bash_profile On my machine Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH") returns "" in R and echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH likewise returns only a carriage return from a bash console, but

Re: [R] installation problem on Ubuntu

2016-04-22 Thread Paul Tremblay
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH source ~/.bash_profile I still get the same error. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:45 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > > On Apr 21, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Paul Tremblay > wrote: > > > > I was able to install the curl library with no problems. Howe

Re: [R] installation problem on Ubuntu

2016-04-21 Thread David Winsemius
> On Apr 21, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > I was able to install the curl library with no problems. However, when I > tried to install ggplot (install.packages("ggplot2")), I got the same > message as earlier, that R can't load internet.so. Is the libcurl directory in your search p

Re: [R] installation problem on Ubuntu

2016-04-21 Thread Paul Tremblay
I was able to install the curl library with no problems. However, when I tried to install ggplot (install.packages("ggplot2")), I got the same message as earlier, that R can't load internet.so. Thanks for your help! On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Tom Wright wrote: > apt-get install curl libcu

Re: [R] installation problem on Ubuntu

2016-04-21 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Paul, Please keep the list copied so that others might chime in with suggestions. I'm afraid "no success" is too vague to be useful. What did you do, and what errors did you encounter? Best, Ista On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: > Yes, I tried those instructions as well

Re: [R] installation problem on Ubuntu

2016-04-20 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Have you read the CRAN instructions for installing on Ubuntu? Have you read the Posting Guide that mentions the R-sig-debian mailing list and that if you need help compiling R this is not the right list? -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On April 20, 2016 9:36:51 AM PDT, Paul T

[R] installation problem on Ubuntu

2016-04-20 Thread Paul Tremblay
I needed to update R so I could install ggplot. I am running Ubuntu 12.04. I cannot upgrade Ubuntu because I am using a work computer. I tried upgrading the normal way: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev But this only installed an earlier version. Finally I tried install