[R] Help

[David Winsemius]

On 2/20/20 5:10 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On 2/20/20 6:32 AM, mohi uddin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Good day,
>> Sir,
>> I am PhD student and using metaSem by R package 3.6.2. For meta 
>> analysis.
>> I am using tssem. On stage 2, I type install.packages("semPlot")
>> Require("semPlot")
>> And then got given below message.
>>
>> package ‘semPlot’ is not available (for R version 3.6.2)
>
> Rhelp is a plain text mailing list. If your PhD program doesn't 
> include training on how to use a mail client, then you should avail 
> yourself of the online training that google offers. It is incredibly 
> easy to sent plaintext messages with gmail.
>
>
> You should always include your setup, preferably with the output of 
> sessionInfor()
                                           make that 
..................sessionInfo()
>
>
> You should also include the full output of you console session ... not 
> just the last line.
>
>
> I just executed:
>
> install.packages("semPlot")
>
> ... and got an error message saying the package "OpenMx" had failed to 
> install properly. In the process of getting to that point there was a 
> rather long list of package dependencies that were also installed. I'm 
> on Linux and the install.packages function behaves differently here 
> than it does on OSX or Windoze. There you should always include 
> dependencies=TRUE in the parameters given to `install.packages`.
>
> Since OpenMx failed to install., I decided to try again. Many times 
> packages have dependencies which have dependencies which  ....  ... 
> Turtles all the way down. Well, R only goes only turtle-level down.

..............................................................................^one^

>
> OpenMv eventually compiles. It was the longest single package 
> compilation I've ever seen. But finally I saw:
>
> * DONE (OpenMx)
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
>     ‘/tmp/Rtmp4ADe86/downloaded_packages’


You probably would not need to compile OpenMx from source I as I needed 
to, There is a win.binary version on CRAN.


Again;

Best of luck.


David

>
> # So I executed the install.packages again
>
>> install.packages("semPlot")
> Installing package into ‘/home/david/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5.1’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/semPlot_1.1.2.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 75138 bytes (73 KB)
> ==================================================
> downloaded 73 KB
>
> * installing *source* package ‘semPlot’ ...
> ** package ‘semPlot’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> ** using staged installation
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
> ** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary 
> installation path
> * DONE (semPlot)
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
>     ‘/tmp/Rtmp4ADe86/downloaded_packages’
>
> Success.
>
> Best of luck ... and do pay attention to the advice at the top. It's 
> the only way to get beyond perpetual noobism.
>