[R] Problem with r project in ubuntu xenial

[Ista Zahn]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:46 PM, George Balas <gbalas07 at gmail.com> wrote:
> For anyone who sees this conversation.
>
> There is a bug in installation of igraph in R language in Ubuntu. There is
> a solution in stackoverflow.

A link would be nice.

 We have to use the devtools. Write this code:
> install.packages("devtools")
> library(devtools)
> install_github("igraph/rigraph")

This is a temporary work-around that is only needed until igraph is
updated in CRAN. The bug report is at
https://github.com/igraph/rigraph/issues/234

>
> If there are errors installing devtools just install any package that
> comments.

I don't follow this part.

Best,
Ista

>
> On Nov 5, 2017 00:07, "George Balas" <gbalas07 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> -Well it seems that it is getting "el_GR.UTF-8" but still I am not able
>> to read files written in greek, there are only "????" instead of letters.
>> -Also, I forgot to mention that I do load igraph library when I try "graph_from_adjacency_matrix".
>> When I check igraph in packages dialog I can not see functions with
>> underscores between words, only dots.
>>
>> 2017-11-04 2:22 GMT+02:00 David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>:
>>
>>>
>>> > On Nov 3, 2017, at 5:09 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> On 3 Nov 2017, at 23:39 , George Balas <gbalas07 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I have a problem with R in Ubuntu 16.04. I do not know if it is mine
>>> pc or
>>> >> general problem but I was not able to find solution on Internet.
>>> >> First of all I can not change locale to greek by getting this message:
>>> >> "In Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "Greek") :
>>> >> OS reports request to set locale to "Greek" cannot be honored"
>>> >
>>> > The Greek locale is likely not called "Greek" outside of Windows. More
>>> likely "el_GR.UTF-8" or thereabouts (check your locale database, I'm on a
>>> Mac). These things are not standardized across platforms.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Also
>>>
>>> From help(locales): Attempts to change the character set by
>>> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE") that implies a different character set during a
>>> session may not work and are likely to lead to some confusion because it
>>> may not affect the native encoding.
>>>
>>>
>>> >> Second and more serious is that I can not use some functions like
>>> >> graph_from_adjacency_matrix or print_all I get these messeges:
>>> >> "could not find function "graph_from_adjacency_matrix""
>>> >> "could not find function "print_all"".
>>> >
>>> > Missing library(igraph)?
>>> >
>>> > -pd
>>> >
>>> >> I am using R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28) -- "Short Summer" either on
>>> rstudio
>>> >> or ubuntu terminal.
>>> >> On my pc I also run win 10 with the same installs and I do not have the
>>> >> above problems, but I work on ubuntu and can not change Os all the
>>> time.
>>> >> Please help me.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thank you for your time,
>>> >> George
>>> >> gbalas07 at gmail.com
>>> >>
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>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
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>>>
>>> David Winsemius
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>>>
>>> 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'
>>>  -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
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>>
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