[R] Problem with foreign package

[Kevin E. Thorpe]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 2/2/2009 8:46 AM, Kevin E. Thorpe wrote:
>> I tried to use write.foreign() to export to SAS this morning and got 
>> an error.
>>
>> When I looked at the code for writeForeignSAS() I saw this line:
>>
>> dfn < -df
>>
>> which I think should be
>>
>> dfn <- df
>>
>> So, I tried to run update.packages() to see if there was an updated 
>> version and got the following result.
> 
> That bug was fixed a few weeks ago, but a new version has not been 
> released yet.  You can get the latest source from svn:
> 
> https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/foreign

Thanks Duncan.  I'll grab it.

> 
> 
>>
>>  > update.packages(c("foreign"))
>> Warning message:
>> In list.files(lib) : list.files: 'foreign' is not a readable directory
>>
>> I ran the above command as root.
>>
>> Is this because the foreign package is a core package and not a CRAN one?
> 
> It is a "recommended" package, which means it is on CRAN, but is also 
> included in binary distributions of R.  But the reason you got that 
> error is because update.packages() doesn't take a package name as the 
> first arg, the first arg is lib.loc.  You need to answer the interactive 
> questions if you don't want to update everything.

Oops, my bad. :)

> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
>>
>> My sessionInfo() is
>>
>> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
>> i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US;LC_PAPER=en_US;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C 
>>
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.8.0
>>
>> and my version of foreign is 0.8-30
>>
> 
> 


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Kevin E. Thorpe
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Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
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