[R] Updating Package Fails: Help on How to Fix Needed

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/12/2015 2:36 PM, William Dunlap wrote:
> stats::sigma was added to R recently.  It is is R-devel now, I don't know
> about yesterday's R-3.2.3.

As Rich saw, it's not.  pbkrtest should have "Depends: R (>= 3.3.0)" 
instead of "Depends: R (>= 3.0.0)" in its DESCRIPTION.
You can see it failed tests on CRAN.

Duncan Murdoch
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/12/2015 1:44 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >>
> >>     Trying to update package pbkrtest failed because of a missing object
> >> in
> >> another namespace. Not having experienced this issue before now I don't
> >> know
> >> what to do to fix the problem. Here's the story:
> >>
> >> * installing *source* package ‘pbkrtest’ ...
> >> ** package ‘pbkrtest’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> >> ** R
> >> ** data
> >> ** inst
> >> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> >> Warning: replacing previous import by ‘stats::sigma’ when loading
> >> ‘pbkrtest’
> >> Error : object ‘sigma’ is not exported by 'namespace:stats'
> >> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘pbkrtest’
> >> * removing ‘/usr/lib/R/library/pbkrtest’
> >> * restoring previous ‘/usr/lib/R/library/pbkrtest’
> >>
> >> The downloaded source packages are in
> >>         ‘/tmp/RtmppHtiuJ/downloaded_packages’
> >> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> >> Making 'packages.html' ... done
> >> Warning message:
> >> In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl =
> >> contriburl,  :
> >>     installation of package ‘pbkrtest’ had non-zero exit status
> >>
> >>     Advice needed.
> >
> >
> > I don't see that.  You need to give more details:  I'd start with
> > sessionInfo(), and the version number of the pbkrtest package that you're
> > trying to install.  (If R is downloading it for you,
> > available.packages()["pbkrtest",]  will give lots of useful information.)
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
> >
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