[R] Problem accessing functions in package 'roxygen'

[Uwe Ligges]

Robert A. LaBudde wrote:
> I have Vista Home with R-2.9.0, and installed and tried to test the 
> package 'roxygen':
> 
>  > utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> trying URL 
> 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/roxygen_0.1.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 699474 bytes (683 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 683 Kb
> 
> package 'roxygen' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>         C:\Users\RAL\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpZPlILq\downloaded_packages
> updating HTML package descriptions
> Warning message:
> In file.create(f.tg) :
>   cannot create file 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-29~1.0/doc/html/packages.html', 
> reason 'Permission denied'
>  > library('roxygen')
> Warning message:
> package 'roxygen' was built under R version 2.9.1
>  > trim("  1234")
> Error: could not find function "trim"
> 
> I have a similar problem with trim.right(), trim.left() and other 
> functions I've tried.
> 
> Any ideas?

Probably it is not intende to call trim and friends like that, because 
they are not exported from roxygen's namespace, hence you could use 
roxygen:::trim("  1234")

Uwe Ligges


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