[Rd] more problems when using "installWithVers"

A.J. Rossini blindglobe at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 15:22:14 CEST 2005


And wasn't to my last example.  Since it probably is clear that I'm
retyping errors, there is a reason that I'm delaying on the next few.

On 10/4/05, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Tony,
>
> The problem is specific to your example:
>
> > install.packages("ash")
> ...
> > install.packages("ash", installWithVers=TRUE)
> > library("ash", version="1.0-9")
> > search()
>  [1] ".GlobalEnv"        "package:ash_1.0-9" "package:methods"
>  [4] "package:stats"     "package:graphics"  "package:grDevices"
>  [7] "package:utils"     "package:datasets"  "Autoloads"
> [10] "package:base"
>
> and lies in lattice's .onLoad (as the message says, and hence the Cc: to
> Deepayan).  That has
>
> .onLoad <- function(lib, pkg)
> {
>     library.dynam(pkg, pkg, lib )
>     lattice.options(.defaultLatticeOptions())
>     lattice.setStatus(.defaultLatticeStatus())
> }
>
> which is incorrect: it should be library.dynam("lattice", pkg, lib)
> OTOH, 'ash' has it correctly and so works.
>
> I am not sure BTW that lattice_0.12-7 is necessarily compatible with R
> 2.2.0.
>
> Brian
>
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>
> > R-devel, SVN revision 35729 (this morning, euro-time)
> >
> > So far, I'm having awful luck with the "installWithVers" flags.
> >
> > Recent example:
> >
> > I can install.packages("lattice", installWithVers=TRUE)
> > successfully (no errors, at least it looks like a successful install),
> > but can't load it:
> >
> > Error in library.dynam(pkg,pkg,lib) : shared library 'lattice_0.12-7' not found
> > Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamesspace' for 'lattice_0.12-7'
> > Error: package/namespace load filed for 'lattice'
>
> Did you really get those typos?  I don't.
>
> Error in library.dynam(pkg, pkg, lib) : shared library 'lattice_0.12-7' not found
> Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'lattice_0.12-7'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'lattice'
>
>
> > It's there.  (note: no problems on a different installation, avoiding
> > the "installWithVers" flags for package installation).
> >
> > best,
> > -tony
> >
> > blindglobe at gmail.com
> > Muttenz, Switzerland.
> > "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily
> > roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
>
> --
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> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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--
best,
-tony

blindglobe at gmail.com
Muttenz, Switzerland.
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).



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