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errors in loading packages (PR#9839)

4 messages · peterwickham at mac.com, Ken Beath, Gregory R. Warnes +1 more

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Full_Name: Peter Wickham
Version: 2.4.1
OS: Mac 10.4.10
Submission from: (NULL) (209.59.87.136)


Attempted to load "gdata" and "gregmisc" packages after using installing via
Package Installer in R. Both load attempts resulted in the following message:
"Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) :  there is no package
called 'gtools'". There is no mention of failure in the Mac OSX check summary
for packages. Another package "waveslim" installed and loaded properly (apart
from the R topic "AR1").
I might also mention that I am still using R 2.4.1 tather than R 2.5.1 as I
received warning messages in red
 R[244] and R[451] "tossing reply message sequence 1 on" when downloading the
latest version of R.
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On 10/08/2007, at 5:14 AM, peterwickham at mac.com wrote:

            
Either use the installer to download gtools etc or check the Install  
Dependencies box and they will all be automatically downloaded.
This isn't a problem, it still works, there might be a development  
version where it is fixed. For Mac related problems there is a  
special list at https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac Check  
the archives for discussion of this problem.

Ken
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Another way of answering the question:  The gmodels and gregmisc  
package both depend on the gtools package.  Either install that  
first, or tell R to install all dependencies.  From the command line:

	install.packages(..., depends=TRUE)

or the equivalent checkbox in the UI.

-G
On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:02AM , Ken Beath wrote:

            
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Gregory Warnes wrote:
... and dependencies are installed automatically in recent version of R, 
so one reason more for a quick update!

Uwe Ligges