loading gap package

On 4 ??? 2005, at 11:35 ??, Uwe Ligges wrote:

Eduwin Pakpahan wrote:

Dear R users, I did install R. 2.0.1, and try to load "gap" package. 
However, below is the message shown when I did load it. Can anybody
please let me know my mistakes?
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library()
library(gap)

Loading required package: MASS Loading required package: genetics Loading 
required package: combinat Loading required package: gdata Error: package 
'gdata' could not be loaded
In addition: Warning message: There is no package called 'gdata' in: 
library(pkg, character.only =
TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)
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Let me read the error message for you:
"There is no package 'gdata'" simply means the package is not there...
So what about installing it?

Hint: it is part of the package bundle "gregmisc".

I have a similar problem with R 2.1.0 on Mac OSX 10.3.9.

library(gregmisc)

Loading required package: gdata
Error: package 'gdata' could not be loaded
In addition: Warning message:
there is no package called 'gdata' in: library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, 
logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)

At first I tried getting this gdata from somewhere else, but I could not find 
it (evidence indicated that it is part of the gregmisc, as I suspected 
originally... You email confirms this...)

(For the record, my goal is to get read.xls, which is part (?) of gdata)