[Rd] errors in loading packages (PR#9839)

Gregory Warnes gregory.warnes at mac.com
Fri Aug 10 17:25:16 CEST 2007


Another way of answering the question:  The gmodels and gregmisc  
package both depend on the gtools package.  Either install that  
first, or tell R to install all dependencies.  From the command line:

	install.packages(..., depends=TRUE)

or the equivalent checkbox in the UI.

-G

On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:02AM , Ken Beath wrote:

> On 10/08/2007, at 5:14 AM, peterwickham at mac.com wrote:
>
>> Full_Name: Peter Wickham
>> Version: 2.4.1
>> OS: Mac 10.4.10
>> Submission from: (NULL) (209.59.87.136)
>>
>>
>> Attempted to load "gdata" and "gregmisc" packages after using
>> installing via
>> Package Installer in R. Both load attempts resulted in the
>> following message:
>> "Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) :  there
>> is no package
>> called 'gtools'". There is no mention of failure in the Mac OSX
>> check summary
>> for packages. Another package "waveslim" installed and loaded
>> properly (apart
>> from the R topic "AR1").
>
> Either use the installer to download gtools etc or check the Install
> Dependencies box and they will all be automatically downloaded.
>
>> I might also mention that I am still using R 2.4.1 tather than R
>> 2.5.1 as I
>> received warning messages in red
>>  R[244] and R[451] "tossing reply message sequence 1 on" when
>> downloading the
>> latest version of R.
>>
>>
>
> This isn't a problem, it still works, there might be a development
> version where it is fixed. For Mac related problems there is a
> special list at https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac Check
> the archives for discussion of this problem.
>
> Ken
>
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