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car package dependencies

9 messages · Philippe Glaziou, Torsten Hothorn, Daniele Medri +3 more

Peter Dalgaard
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Martin Wegmann <baliola at riseup.net> writes:
Which system are we talking about?? Linux, obviously, but which
distribution packages things up like that?

Normally, grid/lattice are part of the base installation of R, being
in the group of recommended packages. This wasn't always so, but it
has been that way since R 1.6.0. I would suspect that you have some
sort of version skew and that your car/grid/lattice RPMs relate to an
older version of R (or the person who built the RPMs failed to notice
the dependency changes).
Philippe Glaziou
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Martin Wegmann <baliola at riseup.net> wrote:
Why would you want to use rpm? 

See ?install.packages

and (at least) pages 7-8 of "R Installation and
Administration"
Martin Wegmann
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Hello, 

I tried to install the "car" package but I can't solve the dependencies. car 
needs grid, lattice and dr but when I try to install grid I get this error 
prompt:

wz3x64:/home/oggi/R/software/contrib # rpm -i R-car-1.0.R3-1.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        R-grid is needed by R-car-1.0.R3-1
        R-lattice is needed by R-car-1.0.R3-1
wz3x64:/home/oggi/R/software/contrib # rpm -i R-grid-0.7.R4-1.i386.rpm
file /usr/lib/R/library/grid/DESCRIPTION from install of R-grid-0.7.R4-1 
conflicts with file from package R-base-1.7.0-1
wz3x64:/home/oggi/R/software/contrib # rpm -i R-lattice-0.7.R11-1.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        R-grid is needed by R-lattice-0.7.R11-1
wz3x64:/home/oggi/R/software/contrib #

how do I solve this problem? thanks in advance, cheers Martin
Torsten Hothorn
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that does not need to work. `install.packages' in a pre-compiled
distribution of R (for Unix) cannot safely assume that compilers /
translators / linkers / shared libraries needed for building a
package are available (at runtime) in the places determined at
compile time. Missing `f2c' or `-lreadline' produce a lot of "cannot
install package xyz" threads on this list...

Torsten
Daniele Medri
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Alle 13:08, gioved? 12 giugno 2003, Torsten Hothorn ha scritto:
What about a Unix system without a compiler? ;)
With less than 50Mb of usefull software, you can compile and gain more 
performance than generic bin for your own stats. 

Look at:
install.packages		-> es. install.packages("Rcmdr")
update.packages()	-> es. update.packages()
library()			-> es. library(car), library(lattice)
Peter Dalgaard
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Martin Wegmann <baliola at riseup.net> writes:
You could try installing the RPM ignoring dependencies (--force or
--nodeps or thereabouts) or maybe more obviously: install from the
source package with install.packages() (over the net) or  R CMD
INSTALL car_x.y-z.tar.gz.
Martin Wegmann
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Hello,
I am using Suse 8.1, R 1.7.0 (->grid & lattice included)
can I change the 'car' dependencies/relation to the older R version myself 
without any deep programming knowledge?

Or is there any other packages with a box cox transformation or a similar 
normalization transformation ?

thanks Martin
Brian Ripley
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Martin Wegmann wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
install.packages("car")!

            

      
      
      
    

        
There is of course boxcox in MASS, which you do have.

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Thanks, 

rpm -i --nodeps R-car-..... worked. 

only as info, Install.packages(car) didn't work - no packages called car were 
found - do I have to typ the name in differently? but anyway box.cox in car 
is working 
thanks all for their help, cheers Martin

        
On Thursday 12 June 2003 12:03, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: