[Rd] Installing dependent packages

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 19/08/2007 2:35 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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.

It seems to be a problem with CRAN:

 > 
available.packages("http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.5")["ggplot2","Depends"]
[1] "R (>= 2.4), grid, reshape (>= 0.8.0), proto, splines, MASS,"
 > 
available.packages("http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.5")["ggplot2","Depends"]
[1] "R (>= 2.4), grid, reshape (>= 0.8.0), proto, splines, 
MASS,\nRColorBrewer, colorspace"

Duncan Murdoch
> 
>> 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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