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From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
[mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 10:45 AM
To: Peter Dalgaard
Cc: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [Rd] Recursive dependencies(Rcmdr)
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Something might have slipped by me, but I got into the following
situation installing Rcmdr:
install.packages() does indeed have code to check for
dependencies of dependencies. I got the message
also installing the dependencies 'acepack', 'scatterplot3d',
'quadprog', 'fBasics', 'Hmisc', 'mlbench', 'randomForest',
'SparseM', 'xtable', 'oz', 'leaps', 'dynlm', 'e1071',
'tseries', 'chron', 'fCalendar', 'its', 'DAAG', 'abind',
'car', 'effects', 'lmtest', 'multcomp', 'mvtnorm', 'relimp',
'sandwich', 'strucchange', 'zoo'
The problem is the ordering. Rcmdr does have mvtnorm in the
'Suggests'
list, and has it after 'multcomp', and install.packages does
not check that the Suggests list does not have inter-dependencies.
So we do `do something smarter', but not smart enough.
< install.packages("Rcmdr",depend=TRUE) >
Oodles of Output, until:
* Installing *source* package 'multcomp' ...
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
unable to load shared library
'/home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/mvtnorm/libs/mvtnorm.so':
/home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/mvtnorm/libs/mvtnorm.so: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory Execution halted
.... Several oodles more for remaining packages ....
** building package indices ...
* DONE (strucchange)
The downloaded packages are in
/tmp/RtmpF23254/downloaded_packages
Warning messages:
1: installation of package 'multcomp' had non-zero exit status in:
install.packages("Rcmdr", depend = TRUE)
2: cannot create HTML package index in:
tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library)
OK, so we start Rcmdr
Loading required package: tcltk
Loading required package: car
it then detects that multcomp is missing and asks for permission to
install it, giving the same result.
The thing appears to be that multcomp depends on mvtnorm, but the
extra dependency goes undetected. Manual installation of the two
works.
A workaround is that John adds mvtnorm to the Suggested list for
Rcmdr, but I wonder if we couldn't do something smarter.
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platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
arch x86_64
os linux-gnu
system x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major 2
minor 2.0
year 2005
month 10
day 06
svn rev 35749
language R
[1] "/home/bs/pd/Rlibrary" "/usr/lib64/R/library"
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