On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:31 AM, katrien michiels
<katrien.michiels@ugent.be>wrote:

> dear Bioconductors,
>
> Although I managed to teach myself some R (a while ago), I am still a
> novice in Bioconductor... I am trying to experiment a bit with the
> smida-package, but I don't even get is properly installed on my system.
> I downloaded the current version form
> http://www.math.rug.nl/~ernst/book/smida.html<http://www.math.rug.nl/%7Eernst/book/smida.html>and installed it (in R 2.9) after installing the lars package, which it
> needs to operate properly.
> When I try to load the package, it keeps asking me for package mva, which
> doesn't exist anymore, because it has been replaced -together with modreg-
> by the stats package:
>
> Loading required package: mva
> Error: package 'mva' could not be loaded
> In addition: Warning message:
> In library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, lib.loc =
> lib.loc) :
>  there is no package called 'mva'
>
> When I try to look at e.g. data(skin) of data(breast) or any other command
> I find in the manual, R is not able to find any of those.
>
> Can someone please show me the trick to get smida up and working?
>

Hi, Katrien.  Smida is not a bioconductor package, so this isn't really the
right place to ask.  However, a quick glance at the home page has this
message:

The smida library depends on several other libraries (MASS, lars, class,
> cluster, mva, modreg [in R1.9 the package stats replaces both mva and
> modreg]) for its smooth operation. These libraries and R itself can either
> be downloaded below or directly from the R-webpage:


So, all those libraries need to be installed.  If you have further problems,
you might want to email the authors.

Sean


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