[R] How to solve lazy-loading faiolure for pkg gstat - was (disable lazy-loading in install.packages() ?)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Use install.packages(dependencies=TRUE).

It won't load if you disable lazy-loading, so that was not a solution.


On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Ulrich Leopold wrote:

> Because I get the follwoing message:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> ** R
> ** data
> ** demo
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), keep.source) :
>        there is no package called 'sp'
> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'gstat'
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/gstat'
> ** Restoring previous '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/gstat'
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> I do not know how to solve it other than disabling lazy-loading. But maybe I
> can re-phrase my question to:
>
> How to solve lazy-loading failure for installation of package gstat under
>
>> R.version
>         _
> platform i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i486
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i486, linux-gnu
> status
> major    2
> minor    1.1
> year     2005
> month    06
> day      20
> language R
>
> ?
>
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
>
>
> On Tue, March 7, 2006 10:29, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> Why do you want to?
>>
>> As from a near-future version of R, you will not be able to do this via R
>> CMD INSTALL.  The recommended place to specify this is in the packages'
>> DESCRIPTION files, and why do you think you know better than the packages'
>> authors?  (Quite a few packages will not work with it turned off.)
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Ulrich Leopold wrote:
>>
>>>> R.version
>>>         _
>>> platform i486-pc-linux-gnu
>>> arch     i486
>>> os       linux-gnu
>>> system   i486, linux-gnu
>>> status
>>> major    2
>>> minor    1.1
>>> year     2005
>>> month    06
>>> day      20
>>> language R
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> how can I disable lazy-loading in 'install.packages("some packages")'?
>>>
>>> I know of the possiblity to switch it off with 'R CMD INSTALL'. But I do not
>>> want to leave R on several machines and download the source code and install
>>> it with 'R CMD INSTALL'.
>>>
>>> Is there a way of disabling it within an R session?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ulrich
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Ulrich Leopold MSc.
>
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>
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>
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595