Problem with foreign package
On 2/2/2009 8:46 AM, Kevin E. Thorpe wrote:
I tried to use write.foreign() to export to SAS this morning and got an error. When I looked at the code for writeForeignSAS() I saw this line: dfn < -df which I think should be dfn <- df So, I tried to run update.packages() to see if there was an updated version and got the following result.
That bug was fixed a few weeks ago, but a new version has not been released yet. You can get the latest source from svn: https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/foreign
> update.packages(c("foreign"))
Warning message: In list.files(lib) : list.files: 'foreign' is not a readable directory I ran the above command as root. Is this because the foreign package is a core package and not a CRAN one?
It is a "recommended" package, which means it is on CRAN, but is also included in binary distributions of R. But the reason you got that error is because update.packages() doesn't take a package name as the first arg, the first arg is lib.loc. You need to answer the interactive questions if you don't want to update everything. Duncan Murdoch
My sessionInfo() is R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i686-pc-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US;LC_PAPER=en_US;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.8.0 and my version of foreign is 0.8-30