[R] New R on Mac user fails to run MASS

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Michael Kubovy wrote:

> My R installation (Mac OS9.2.2) is working, but when I try to run the
> examples from Venables & Ripley (p. 6):
>
> R : Copyright 2001, The R Development Core Team
> Version 1.4.0  (2001-12-19)
>
> ...
>
> > library(MASS)
> > x<-rnorm(1000)
> > y<-rnorm(1000)
> > truehist(c(x,y+3),nbins=25)					% Plots nicely
> > dd<-con2tr(kde2d(x,y))						% Doesn't complain
> > contourplot(z ~ x + y, data=dd,aspect=1)
> Error: couldn't find function "contourplot"
> > wireframe(z ~ x + y, data=dd,drape=T)
> Error: couldn't find function "wireframe"

This looks as if you're trying to use the S-PLUS examples rather than the
`R Complements' that are available from the MASS website.

S-PLUS has some features that R lacks, and others that R implements
differently, and the `R Complements' help work around this.


	-thomas

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