[R] problem with the plm package

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Nov 22 11:15:51 CET 2006


You downloaded a Windows binary package for R 2.4.0 and tried to load it 
into R 2.2.0.  That does not work, as you found out.

You need to install from the source package, or (better) update your 
version of R (as the posting guide asked you to do before posting).


On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Giangiacomo Bravo wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem in installing and using the plm
> package using R 2.2.0 on windows xp.
>
> I installed it from a .zip file downloaded from
> the CRAN. Apparently everything is ok:
> > utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> package 'plm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> updating HTML package descriptions
>
> However, when I try to load it:
> > library(plm)
> Errore in lazyLoadDBfetch(key, datafile, compressed, envhook) :
>         ReadItem: tipo 241 sconosciuto
> Inoltre: Warning message:
> il pacchetto 'plm' è stato creato con R versione 2.4.0
> Errore: caricamento pacchetto/namespace fallito per 'plm'
>
> Sorry I installed R in Italian, but that should
> be easy to understand. "Errore" means, of course,
> error and "sconosciuto" means unknown. Basically
> the package cannot be loaded because there is an
> unknowwn item (at least, that's what I understand).
>
> Does anybody have an idea of the problem?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Giangiacomo
>
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