Problems with Rcmdr and BiodiversityR
Dear Frieda, I'm afraid that I completely misunderstood your question. I was unfamiliar with the BiodiversityR package and thought that you were writing an Rcmdr plug-in for it. Actually, I see that BiodiversityR uses the Rcmdr interface, but isn't written as a standard plug-in. Instead, it apparently manipulates the Rcmdr menu file directly. This is inadvisable, and I suspect that package is simply incompatible with the current version of the Rcmdr package. I suggest that you contact the package maintainer, who might choose to rewrite the package as a plug-in. Regards, John On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 08:55:35 -0800 (PST)
Frieda <friederike.grueninger at uni-passau.de> wrote:
Dear John, thanks for the quick answer - I'm new to R and sometimes a bit lost in the "jungle"... - version conflict seems to be the problem. I use the recent Rcmdr Version but took the plug-in package for BiodiversityR from the authors page, which seems to be not updated
(http://www.worldagroforestry.org/treesandmarkets/tree_diversity_analysis.asp).
I'll find a working plug-in! Thanks again Frieda John Fox-6 wrote:
Dear Frieda, I'm afraid that it's not possible to tell from the information that you've given what the source of the problem is. What version of
Rcmdr
are you using? Have you written an Rcmdr plug-in package for BiodiversityR? Where in your code is this error produced? Etc. My guess is that there's a version conflict, since the current
version
of the Rcmdr package on CRAN (1.4-6) doesn't use the variable
operatorFont, which was previously employed to render the various
operator buttons (+, *, etc.) used in the formula fields of
statistical-modeling dialogs. (Now the standard font is used on the
buttons.) This variable was (and is) used nowhere else in the Rcmdr
package. The error was probably produced by the command
getRcmdr("operatorFont"); why that should be in your code, I can't
say.
Although I don't know the specific source of the error, I recommend that you start by updating R, the Rcmdr package, and all other
packages
to their current versions. Your plug-in should call the current versions of Rcmdr utility functions, such as modelFormula(). I hope this helps, John On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:59:27 -0800 (PST) Frieda <friederike.grueninger at uni-passau.de> wrote:
Dear all, I run R 2.7.2 under Windows and integrated BiodiversityR
sucessfully
into the R commander. Most functions of BiodiversityR run but others
(like
"analysis of species as response") produce blank windows and the message: Error in get(x, envir = RcmdrEnv(), mode = mode, inherits = FALSE)
:
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