[R] Problem accessing functions in package 'roxygen'

[Uwe Ligges]

Robert A LaBudde wrote:
> Thanks, Uwe. Unfortunately, that doesn't work either:
> 
>  > library('roxygen')
> Warning message:
> package 'roxygen' was built under R version 2.9.1
>  > roxygen::trim(' 1234 ')

You need three colons as indicated in my previous answer!

Uwe


> Error: 'trim' is not an exported object from 'namespace:roxygen'
> 
> I ended up using
> 
> trim <- function(x) gsub("^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$", "", x)
> 
> instead.
> 
> At 01:42 PM 9/3/2009, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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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