problems in installing packages with R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-05 r39134)
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
At least some of this will go away if you use a current version of 2.4.0 alpha rather than one that is a week old (as the posting guide does ask). We are now at r39258, and some of those binary packages were built against a substantially later version of 2.4.0 alpha. If you look at the list of available packages at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.htm you will see which are unavailable as Windows binaries and why. More can be installed from the sources but do not pass R CMD check for Uwe (or in most cases for anyone else: see the other CRAN summaries). This is the 'alpha' period, and we are waiting for updates on quite a number of packages (especially ones that use S4 methods). However, R 2.4.0 is not even in feature freeze yet, and it is quite possible that packages will need to be reinstalled again prior to release.
Currently, the main problems with many packages are missing *recent* binaries (after the latest S4 changes) of BioC packages, hence many dependencies may not be working. I do not want to compile the whole BioC repository as well. Uwe
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
I just downloaded the windows version R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-05 r39134) 1. When I downloaded the packages, the following two were not found.
utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- dependency ''fCalendar'' is not available dependency ''SparseM'' is not available I am not sure which other packages depend on these. 2. Of the others, several didn't install cleanly package 'mlbench' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- 2.4.0alpha\library\file41bb5af1\mlbench' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\mlbench' package 'tseries' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\file305e124 \tseries' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\tseries' package 'DAAG' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- 2.4.0alpha\library\file491c440d\DAAG' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\DAAG' package 'acepack' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- 2.4.0alpha\library\file767d7a5a\acepack' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\acepack' package 'rcom' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: unable to move temporary installation 'C:\Program Files\R\R- 2.4.0alpha\library\file58784b40\rcom' to 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0alpha\library\rcom' I reinstalled all five from the local zip files that were downloaded as part of the above installation, and four worked and one didn't. I needed to reinstall mlbench a third time and this time it worked. This type of problem frequently happens when I download a new version of R.
This suggests problems with your local file system: it is definitely a Windows rather than an R problem.
3. rgl is still not working in Windows package 'rgl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
library(rgl)
Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
unable to load shared library 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.0AL/library/rgl/libs/rgl.dll':
LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found.
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'rgl'
Therefore the Rcmdr 3-d graphics isn't working.
Rich
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