[Rd] can you library(MASS) with R 1.9.0?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It is just possible you need to log out and log in again, or even reboot, 
since an earlier version of the DLL might be loaded into the OS.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Tony Plate wrote:

> Thank you!
> 
> I had not used tools/rsync-recommended -- I just coped the rsync command 
> from the R FAQ (i.e., rsync -rC --delete rsync.R-project.org::r-devel R).
> 
> The tools/rsync-recommended command downloaded the various recommended 
> packages.
> 
> However, to get this I had to get the latest version of the tools (out of 
> <http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/tools.zip>http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/tools.zip), 
> and after changing my path to use it I get the dreaded "You have multiple 
> copies of cygwin1.dll on your system" error, even though I have set my path 
> so that I have only one copy of cygwin1.dll in my path (as far as I can see):
> 
> $ type -a cygwin1.dll
> cygwin1.dll is /cygdrive/c/R/tools/cygwin1.dll
> $ ls
> c:\R\tools\ls.exe: *** fhandler size version mismatch detected - 0x70/0x6C.
> You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system.
> Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility
> and delete all but the most recent version.  The most recent version *should*
> reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have
> installed the cygwin distribution.
> 
> # this is the path I'm had for the commands above -- this command run with 
> a different PATH so that it can run
> $ echo $RPATH | tr ':' '\012'
> .
> /cygdrive/c/R/tools
> /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin
> //jacona/home/tplate/depot/Spluslibs/scripts
> //jacona/home/tplate/scripts
> //jacona/home/data/bin
> /cygdrive/c/texmf/miktex/bin
> /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin
> /cygdrive/c/jdk1.3/bin
> /cygdrive/c/tap/scripts
> /cygdrive/c/gnu/gnuplot
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Insightful/splus61/cmd
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Insightful/splus61net/server/cmd
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/QAI/MarketQA/Bin
> /cygdrive/e/marketqa/Bin
> /cygdrive/c/marketqa/Bin
> /cygdrive/c/PVSW/Bin
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/Bin
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/WBEM
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Perforce
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Html Help Workshop
> /cygdrive/c/gstools/gs/gs7.03/bin
> /cygdrive/c/R/rw1080/bin
> .
> 
> (I'm running under Windows 2000).
> 
> Any suggestions on how to get things working again are much appreciated.
> 
> -- Tony Plate
> 
> At Thursday 02:33 PM 3/4/2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >You need the version in src/contrib/1.9.0/Recommended on cran (and you do
> >for several other recommended packages).
> >
> >tools/rsync-recommended should get you that version: is that how you are
> >doing it?
> >
> >As a check, MASS comes from VR version 7.2-0 in R-devel.
> >
> >On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, A.J. Rossini wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I'm trying to track down a rather critical problem.  This happens both
> > > on Debian's current unstable as well a from anoncvs built this
> > > morning, reinstalling MASS.  Is anyone else seeing this or am I just
> > > broken and special?
> > >
> > > 609$ /home/Rdevel/bin/R
> > >
> > > R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> > > Version 1.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2004-03-04), ISBN
> > > 3-900051-00-3
> > >
> > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> > > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
> > >
> > > R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> > > Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> > > 'citation()' on how to cite R in publications.
> > >
> > > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> > > 'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
> > > Type 'q()' to quit R.
> > >
> > > > library(MASS)
> > > Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), keep.source) :
> > >         package 'mva' does not have a name space
> > > Error in library(MASS) : package/namespace load failed
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I want to know if it's just me.
> > >
> > > best,
> > > -tony
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >--
> >Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> >Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> >University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595