Run R as root (!)
$ sudo R
And then at the R prompt, type:
> install.packages('brainwaver', dep = TRUE)
This should also pull in the waveslim package on which brainwaver depends.
It will pop up a window with a list of mirrors to download from. I chose London.
Now get out of R before you forget that you're running as root and do serious damage to your system.
You can verify that it's worked by trying
> help(brain)
at the prompt.
When things go wrong.
I next tried to install odfWeave in the same manner.
All seemed well, and it pulled in a package XML as a dependency, but while installing XML,
there was a bunch of output, which looked like a configure script running.
Things obviously went wrong at about this point.
checking for xml2-config... no
Cannot find xml2-config
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘XML’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/XML’
Luckily typing xml2-config at the prompt gave:
$ xml2-config
The program 'xml2-config' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
$ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
So I installed libxml2-dev as suggested, and then Bob was my uncle.
