[R] Problem with vegan package instalation on linux

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Try the posting guide, and do remember to give the 'at a minumum' 
information you were asked for.

I suspect this is not a recent version of R (but you were asked to 
update before posting).  If it is, please explain what 
/usr/local/bin/Rgnome is doing in the R installation -- it was last 
supported in 2.8.x.

In any case
R CMD INSTALL --no-multiarch
should solve the problem, but to avoid wasting your own and the 
helpers' time, please make a clean installation of R 2.12.2.

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ronaldo Reis-Jr. wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I try to install vegan package on debian linux and I give this error:
>
> =================================================
> * installing *source* package 'vegan' ...
> ** libs
> make: *** No rule to make target `cepin.o', needed by `vegan.so'.  Stop.
> *** arch - Rgnome
> Warning in file(con, "r") :
>  cannot open file '/usr/lib/R/etc/Rgnome/Makeconf': No such file or
> directory
> Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
> * removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/vegan'
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>        '/tmp/RtmpYgJz5c/downloaded_packages'
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("vegan") :
>  installation of package 'vegan' had non-zero exit status
> ==============================================
>
> I try to find the problem without success.
>
> Anybody can help-me?
>
> Thanks
> Ronaldo
>
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