Hi there -- I downloaded the MacOS X binaries of R and followed the instructions on installing it, and when I go to perform a tree function, I get the error "Error: couldn't find function "tree"". Do I need to somehow preload the function? If so, how do I do that? Also, update.packages() works for some packages, but not all -- it often fails in the compilation. I have g77 installed, as well as gnome. --j :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Jonathan Greenberg Graduate Group in Ecology, U.C. Davis http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu/~jongreen http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu AIM: jgrn307 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Running R on MacOS X
3 messages · Jonathan Greenberg, Brian Ripley, Roger D. Peng
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
Hi there -- I downloaded the MacOS X binaries of R and followed the instructions on installing it, and when I go to perform a tree function, I get the error "Error: couldn't find function "tree"". Do I need to somehow preload the function? If so, how do I do that?
What do you want the `tree' function to `perform'? Let me guess that you want a clone of S-PLUS. In that case the nearest equivalent is in package `tree' (surprise, surprise) loaded by library(tree), *but* we recommend you to use the facilities of package rpart, which should be in all binary distributions of R.
Also, update.packages() works for some packages, but not all -- it often fails in the compilation. I have g77 installed, as well as gnome.
That's a Mac-specific problem (more than 90% of packages compile out of the box on Unix, Linux and Windows), and your report is far too vague to make a useful comment on.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Also, update.packages() works for some packages, but not all -- it often fails in the compilation. I have g77 installed, as well as gnome.
Where does it fail? On which packages? What kinds of errors do you get? -roger _______________________________ UCLA Department of Statistics rpeng at stat.ucla.edu http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~rpeng
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
Hi there -- I downloaded the MacOS X binaries of R and followed the instructions on installing it, and when I go to perform a tree function, I get the error "Error: couldn't find function "tree"". Do I need to somehow preload the function? If so, how do I do that? --j :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Jonathan Greenberg Graduate Group in Ecology, U.C. Davis http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu/~jongreen http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu AIM: jgrn307 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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