[R] Errors Updating Libraries (2.15)

[Jeff Newmiller]

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Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> I just upgraded from 2.14 to 2.15 and have run into an issue upgrading
>libraries that I've not had in previous version upgrades. For example,
>trying to install reshape2 for 2.15 throws errors and I don't see what
>to
>change to over come the problem:
>
>> install.packages("reshape2")
>Installing package(s) into
>‘/home/rshepard/R/i486-slackware-linux-gnu-library/2.15’
>(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>also installing the dependencies ‘plyr’, ‘stringr’
>
>trying URL
>'http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cran/src/contrib/plyr_1.7.1.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 367683 bytes (359 Kb)
>opened URL
>==================================================
>downloaded 359 Kb
>
>trying URL
>'http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cran/src/contrib/stringr_0.6.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 20551 bytes (20 Kb)
>opened URL
>==================================================
>downloaded 20 Kb
>
>trying URL
>'http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cran/src/contrib/reshape2_1.2.1.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1952562 bytes (1.9 Mb)
>opened URL
>==================================================
>downloaded 1.9 Mb
>
>Error in library(reshape2) : there is no package called ‘reshape2’
>Execution halted
>Error in library(reshape2) : there is no package called ‘reshape2’
>Execution halted
>Error in library(reshape2) : there is no package called ‘reshape2’
>Execution halted
>
>The downloaded source packages are in
> 	‘/tmp/RtmpSP4Etu/downloaded_packages’
>Warning messages:
>1: In install.packages("reshape2") :
>   installation of package ‘plyr’ had non-zero exit status
>2: In install.packages("reshape2") :
>   installation of package ‘stringr’ had non-zero exit status
>3: In install.packages("reshape2") :
>   installation of package ‘reshape2’ had non-zero exit status
>
>   What am I not seeing here?
>
>Rich
>
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