Unbundling gregmisc (was: loading gap package)

Let me redirect the topic a bit.  I've been considering unbundling gregmisc.
The pro would be that people would find the component packages (i.e. gdata)
more easily.  The con is that the packages have a number of
interdependencies, so you pretty much will need to get most of them anyway.

As the latest gregmisc bundle contains a gregmisc package that is just a
stub that depends on and loads the individual packages, there would still be
a gregmisc object.

Comments?

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Antoniou
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:36 AM
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Cc: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Uwe Ligges
Subject: Re: [R] loading gap package


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On 4 ÎœÎ±ÏŠ 2005, at 12:06 ÂµÂµ, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Constantinos Antoniou wrote:

On 4 Å“Â±ÃŠ 2005, at 11:35 Ã€Â¼, 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?
----

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)
----

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)

The current version of gregmisc is 2.0.6.  That does contain gdata.

It looks to me as if the MacOS X binary is broken (2kb) so you will

need to install from the sources.

Thank you. I had the current  version (binary). Reinstalling from

source fixed the issue....

Costas

I think we have been here before: it seems the MacOS X binary

packaging does not work for bundles.

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Let me redirect the topic a bit.  I've been considering unbundling
gregmisc.  The pro would be that people would find the component
packages (i.e. gdata) more easily.  The con is that the packages
have a number of interdependencies, so you pretty much will need to
get most of them anyway.

I have one comment, although it is a little off topic.

I have the gregmisc package installed (R-2.0.1 on Win2000).  Whenever I use
the help.search function it comes back with the following warning:

Warning message:
no Rd contents for package 'gregmisc' in 'C:/local/R/rw210/library' in:
help.search("bundle")

Apparently, the help.search function looks for the CONTENTS file in the
.../library/gregmisc directory.  I created an empty one and the warning
went away.  I know it is purely cosmetic, but if the gregmisc bundle is
kept intact, and I think it should, I would suggest adding the empty
CONTENTS file to its distribution.

Perhaps there is a better way of handling this.  For example, VR is a
bundle but it does not create its VR directory in .../library.