[R] issue with Rcmdr

[tzahaf]

Dear John, Jeff

I have updated R version (3.6.2) as suggested and now Rcmdr works :-)

Thanks again for your time et great help

Best regards

Toufik


On 06.01.2020 23:59, Fox, John wrote:
> 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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