[R] issue with Rcmdr

Fox, John j|ox @end|ng |rom mcm@@ter@c@
Mon Jan 6 23:59:10 CET 2020


Dear Toufik,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toufik Zahaf <tzahaf using ulb.ac.be>
> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 4:07 PM
> To: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
> Cc: r-help using r-project.org; Fox, John <jfox using mcmaster.ca>; tzahaf
> <Toufik.Zahaf using ulb.ac.be>
> Subject: Re: [R] issue with Rcmdr
> 
> Dears
> 
> Thanks a lot , I understand that may be Rcmdr is not ‘adapted’ to run with R
> 3.5.3 so I will try to update R version to 3.6.2 or use the oldest version of R I
> used in the past.

The Rcmdr worked perfectly fine with R 3.5.3 about a year ago but it's possible that you've installed incompatible versions of some packages. As a general matter, keeping R up-to-date isn't a bad idea.

Best,
 John

> 
> I will let you know the outcome
> 
> Best regards
> Toufik
> 
> > Le 6 janv. 2020 à 20:37, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> a écrit :
> >
> > That version of R happens to be "current" if using MRAN... which has some
> benefits (MKL comes pre-configured) and some... ah... "philosophical" ideas
> about stability (uses checkpoint package out of the box... which freezes
> packages at 2019-04-15 UTC unless actions are taken to use a different
> snapshot [1]). The OP may be "stuck in time" at Rcmdr 2.5-2 if they have not
> invoked checkpoint or adjusted the "repos" option... and if the latter then they
> may be encountering package incompatibilities with R 3.5.3 that should have
> been caught with a minimum R-version spec in the Rcmdr package.
> >
> > [1] https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/rro/reproducibility
> >
> >> On January 6, 2020 10:20:04 AM PST, "Fox, John" <jfox using mcmaster.ca>
> wrote:
> >> Dear Toufik,
> >>
> >> You've already had a suggestion to check whether RcmdrMisc is
> >> installed. It should have been installed automatically when you
> >> installed the Rcmdr package.
> >>
> >> If RcmdrMisc is installed, see whether you can load it directly via
> >> the command library(RcmdrMisc). If that too fails, you could try
> >> reinstalling RcmdrMisc via install.packages("RcmdrMisc").
> >>
> >> Finally, you're using an old version of R. You might try installing
> >> the current version, which is 3.6.2. Then install the Rcmdr package
> >> by install.packages("Rcmdr").
> >>
> >> I hope this helps,
> >> John
> >>
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> John Fox
> >> Professor Emeritus
> >> McMaster University
> >> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> >> Web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of tzahaf
> >>> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 8:16 AM
> >>> To: r-help using r-project.org
> >>> Subject: [R] issue with Rcmdr
> >>>
> >>> Dear
> >>>
> >>> I have a problem when trying to use Rcmdr.  This is the msg I
> >> receive:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> package ‘Rcmdr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> >>>
> >>> The downloaded binary packages are in
> >>>
> >>>
> C:\Users\toufiz00\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgXuxDP\downloaded_packages
> >>>> local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =
> >>>> TRUE)),graphics=TRUE)
> >>> + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)})
> >>> Loading required package: RcmdrMisc
> >>> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘RcmdrMisc’ in
> >> rbind(info,
> >>> getNamespaceInfo(env, "S3methods")):
> >>>  number of columns of matrices must match (see arg 2)
> >>> Error: package ‘RcmdrMisc’ could not be loaded
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I am running R 3.5.3 on WIN 10
> >>>
> >>> thanks for your help
> >>>
> >>> Best
> >>>
> >>> Toufik
> >>>
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