[R] update.packages() doesn't work anymore

[apjaworski@mmm.com]

I have R-1.2.1 on a RH-7.0 system and update.packages() seems to work fine
form me.  I have to admit that I have never used it before.  Indeed it is a
great feature.  Now, I do not have R_HOME defined in my  regular bash
environment.  I simply installed R in my home directory and copied the R
shell script to $HOME/bin which is of course on my search path.

Here is what I got when I typed update.packages()

> update.packages()
--13:52:07--  http://cran.r-project.org:80/src/contrib/PACKAGES
           => `/tmp/fileR4839S238e1f29'
Connecting to cran.r-project.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 35,419 [text/plain]

    0K -> .......... .......... .......... ....                  [100%]

13:52:08 (46.49 KB/s) - `/tmp/fileR4839S238e1f29' saved [35419/35419]

Matrix :
 Version 0.3-7 in /home/andyj/stat/R-1.2.1/library
 Version 0.3-8 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  y
--13:52:14--  http://cran.r-project.org:80/src/contrib/Matrix_0.3-8.tar.gz
           => `/tmp/RinstdirR4839S46e87ccd/Matrix_0.3-8.tar.gz'
Connecting to cran.r-project.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 98,349 [application/x-tar]

    0K -> .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... [ 52%]
   50K -> .......... .......... .......... .......... ......     [100%]

13:52:16 (67.26 KB/s) - `/tmp/RinstdirR4839S46e87ccd/Matrix_0.3-8.tar.gz'
saved
[98349/98349]

Installing source package `Matrix' ...
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... gcc

... compilation output snipped ....

 R
 data
 help
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package `Matrix'
     Formats: text html latex example
 DONE (Matrix)

DONE (INSTALL)

Delete downloaded files (y/N)? y

Hope this helps,

Andy






s-luppescu at uchicago.edu on 01/24/2001 12:02:35 PM

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Subject:  [R] update.packages() doesn't work anymore



For some reason, update.packages(), one of the greatest features of R,
doesn't
work anymore (perhaps since I upgraded to 1.2.1?). It downloads the new
packages, but when it tries to build them, I get this message:

WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
/var/tmp/R-base-root/usr/lib/R/bin/Rcmd:
/var/tmp/R-base-root/usr/lib/R/bin/Rcmd: No such file or directory

I save the downloaded packages and then do R INSTALL <pkgname> at the
command
line, and it works fine. I tried setting lib=/usr/lib/R and also the R_HOME
environment var, but that didn't help. What am I doing wrong?

I'm running R 1.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7 (intel).
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