[R] Difficulty loading packages into R version 2.12.0

[Uwe Ligges]

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Uwe Ligges





On 24.11.2010 04:24, john moran wrote:
> Apologies for my previous effort in HTML which apparently was scrubbed
>
> Dear R-users
>
> I wonder if I could get advice on the above problem
>
> I have just installed V 2.12.0 (I chose only the 32-bit version) into a new
> directory (C:/R)  on a 64bit Windows 7 machine
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.12.0
>
> I have loaded (from a zip file in my repository, due to an Institutional
> fire-wall) the package "forecast":
>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> package 'forecast' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> I get the following message when attempting to load the package:
>
>> local({pkg<- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =
> TRUE)),graphics=TRUE)
> + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)})
> Error: package 'forecast' is not installed for 'arch=i386'
>
> There has been a similar query (November 11th ) on this, but I seem to not
> have the suggested problem as:
>> .libPaths()
> [1] "C:/R/R-2.12.0/library" and "forecast" is in the above directory (and no
> other)
>
> Directions on this problem would be much appreciated
>
> john moran
>
> john.moran at adelaide.edu.au
>
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