[R] subscript out of bounds

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jul 2 13:41:23 CEST 2002


R has debugging tools, which you can use to debug this.  My guess is a
problem with your DESCRIPTION file.

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Fred Jean wrote:

> Hello
>
> As I'm beginning to write functions, I decided to have my personnal R library
> named MyStuff located in /home/fred/R.Lib/MyStuff/
>
> The library file itself is at /home/fred/R.Lib/MyStuff/R/MyStuff
>
> evrything seems ok since
> > library()
>             gives :
>
> Packages in library `/usr/lib/R/library':
>
> KernSmooth              Functions for kernel smoothing for Wand &
>                         Jones (1995)
> MASS                    Main Library of Venables and Ripley's MASS
> Simple
> base                    The R base package
> ...
>
> Packages in library `~/R.Lib/':
>
> MyStuff                 Mes fonctions 'made in maison'
>   but :
> >library(MyStuff)
> Error: subscript out of bounds
>
> I don't understand where I'm wrong because the functions in MyStuff
> individually work well when I just paste them from my editor.

There's a lot more to installing a package than that.

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