[R] Pb encountered with demos

[Prof Brian Ripley]

1) You do need to load the packages before doing this.  This is not 
supposed to be needed.

2) So these are bugs in the packages, so please report them to the package 
maintainers (and the posting guide suggest you contact them before 
posting).

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Naji wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I've just installed R on my Mac & PC.
> The base demo run fine.. But I'm encountering several pb with some packages
> (installed using CRAN binaries using the menu)
> - Lattice:
>> demo(lattice,package='lattice')
>
>    demo(lattice)
>    ---- ~~~~~~~
> Type  <Return>     to start :
>> require(grid)
> [1] TRUE
>> old.prompt <- grid.prompt(TRUE)
>> old.settings <- trellis.par.get()
> Erreur dans eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) :
>    impossible de trouver la fonction "trellis.par.get"
> - Zelig
>> demo(poisson,package='Zelig')
>    demo(poisson)
>    ---- ~~~~~~~
> Type  <Return>     to start :
>> data(sanction)
>> user.prompt()
> Erreur dans eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) :
>    impossible de trouver la fonction "user.prompt"
> De plus : Warning message:
> data set 'sanction' not found in: data(sanction)
>
> Is there something wrong in the settings?
> Thanks helping me to fix this
>
> Naji
>
> Mac
> platform powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
> arch     powerpc
> os       darwin7.9.0
> system   powerpc, darwin7.9.0
> status
> major    2
> minor    2.0
> year     2005
> month    10
> day      06
> svn rev  35749
> language R
> PC
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386,mingw32
> status
> major    2
> minor    2.0
> year     2005
> month    10
> day      06
> svn rev  35749
> language R
>
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