[Rd] Installing dependent packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, hadley wickham wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When installing ggplot2 on with install.packages("ggplot2", dep = T),
> the colorspace dependency doesn't get installed (see below for
> transcript from R session).  The relevant lines from my description
> file are:
>
> Depends: R (>= 2.4), grid, reshape (>= 0.8.0), proto, splines, MASS,
> RColorBrewer, colorspace
> Suggests: quantreg, Hmisc, mapproj, maps
>
> Have I done something wrong? Or is this a bug in the installation of
> dependent packages?

You need to start continuation lines with whitespace, but possibly your 
mailer wrapped this. (For readability I would wrap it in the DESCRIPTION 
file.)

I tried in a vanilla session on Linux and colorspace was installed.  Was 
this a vanilla session?  Does it work with type="source"?

It would be helpful if you could debug this as probably no one else can: 
the code has been in use for a long time without any reported problems.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Hadley
>
>
>> install.packages("ggplot2", dep = T)
> also installing the dependencies 'XML', 'RBGL', 'graph', 'chron',
> 'acepack', 'proto', 'Hmisc'
>
> trying URL ' http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.5/XML_1.9-0.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1108754 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1082Kb
>
> trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.5/RBGL_1.12.0.tgz
> '
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 4577430 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 4470Kb
>
> trying URL ' http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.5/graph_1.14.2.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 494951 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 483Kb
>
> trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.5/chron_2.3-14.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 72595 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 70Kb
>
> trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.5/acepack_1.3-2.2.tgz
> '
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 67871 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 66Kb
>
> trying URL ' http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.5/proto_0.3-7.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 958493 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 936Kb
>
> trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.5/Hmisc_3.4-2.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1475177 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1440Kb
>
> trying URL 'http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.5/ggplot2_0.5.4.tgz
> '
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1928720 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1883Kb
>
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>    /tmp/RtmpWRuZcd/downloaded_packages
> Warning message:
> dependency 'Rgraphviz' is not available
>> library(ggplot2)
> Loading required package: proto
> Loading required package: splines
> Loading required package: MASS
> Loading required package: colorspace
> Error: package 'colorspace' could not be loaded
> In addition: Warning message:
> there is no package called 'colorspace' in: library(pkg,
> character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)
>
>
>
>

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