[Rd] Installation of gmodels package (PR#8686)

Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 22:04:44 CET 2006


trfamula at ucdavis.edu wrote:
> Full_Name: Thomas R Famula
> Version: 2.2.1
> OS: Linux - fedora core 4
> Submission from: (NULL) (169.237.28.28)
> 
> 
> Sorry to bother - I hope this is a simple fix.
> Here is the set of error messages I recieved in trying to install the "gmodels"
> package. I typed in "install.packages(c("gmodels"))" as the root and recieved
> the following series of replies:
> 
> 
> 
> install.packages(c("gmodels"))
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib/gmodels_2.12.0.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-tar' length 21872 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 21Kb
> 
> * Installing *source* package 'gmodels' ...
> ** R
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) :
>         there is no package called 'gdata'
> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'gmodels'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib64/R/library/gmodels'
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>         /tmp/Rtmpba5986/downloaded_packages
> Warning message:
> installation of package 'gmodels' had non-zero exit status in:
> install.packages(c("gmodels"))
> 
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Try with
install.packages("gmodels", dependencies=TRUE)

Kjetil



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