[R] error in unique(pkgs) (fwd)

[Katalin Csillery]

> 
> I read your reply as an R mail archive in respect to the installation of
> new R contributed packages on a Mac OS X. 
> I found the same problem, I use OroborOSX and emacs-ESS, I wanted to
> install xtable, ape packages, with the install.packages() command, and I
> got the same error message (naturally: sudo emacs - which avoids the
> argument "lib" missing error message), 
> 
> Error in unique(pkgs) : Object "ape" not found
> 
> Ape is not a base package so it should be available separately.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks for your help in advance!

You really need to use the r-help list for this, I'm not a Mac expert.
(I think you might need to fetch the Stuffit archive from CRAN and
unstuff it manually.)

        -p

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