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4 messages · Murray Jorgensen, Brian Ripley

Murray Jorgensen
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I'm running R 1.2.2 under windows 98 on a Pentium 133 laptop.
I can't seem to retrieve the package MASS data sets:
Warning message: 
Data set `wtloss' not found in: data(wtloss)
Warning message: 
Data set `abbey' not found in: data(abbey) 

And yet all the .rda files for the MASS datasets are in

D:\Program Files\rw1022\library\MASS\data

Help, anyone?


Murray Jorgensen,  Department of Statistics,  U of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
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Murray Jorgensen
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Mmmm, I think I see what the problem is now. Somehow rwinst.exe didn't unzip
all the directories in the tree under 
D:\Program Files\rw1022\library\MASS\
I had later unzipped those files in
D:\Program Files\rw1022\library\MASS\data
and some, but not all, of the zip files in other subdirectories.

Finishing the unzipping did the job, at least it did on my other machine.

Sorry for disturbing the list!
At 11:14 AM 23-05-01 +1200, Murray Jorgensen wrote:
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Murray Jorgensen
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Bad news! The fix that worked on my desktop doesn't work on the laptop.
Everything is now unzipped and still I can't load the MASS datasets.

Murray
At 16:44 23-05-01 , Murray Jorgensen wrote:
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Brian Ripley
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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Murray Jorgensen wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Do you have the current VR build?  Long, long ago (ca January) a rogue
version got onto CRAN and then CRAN failed to mirror the replacement
for a while.

You should *not* be unzipping in MASS\data, and in doing so you have
probably damaged your installation.  I think you need to remove whatever
version of VR you have and install the current version.

MASS\data needs to contain

     4210  04-20-01 15:49   MASS/data/00Index
     1108  04-20-01 15:57   MASS/data/filelist
   160636  04-20-01 15:57   MASS/data/Rdata.zip

Don't touch any of them.

            

      
      
      
    

        
*It* knew what it was doing!

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